Word: schmidts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...censorship views of Godfrey P. Schmidt, a lawyer who has represented Cardinal Spellman, were sharply challenged last night in a Law School Forum at New Lecture Hall...
...While Schmidt maintained that "mankind will never outgrow" the need for minimal censorship, Patrick W. Malin, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, claimed, "Bad may come of free speech, but we get so much else for it that it is worth a high price...
...defense of his position, Schmidt said that unanimity about the means to improve society is impossible, and therefore authority is the only way to reach agreement. He used "Baby Doll," a picture banned by Cardinal Spellman, as an example of how this authority functions in a free society...
...speakers are Godfrey P. Schmidt, president of AWARE, INC., an anti-subversive organization; Pattrick Murphy Malin, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union; and Morris L. Ernst, well-known New York liberal...
Working at Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., Dr. Tombaugh used some fancy apparatus: a Schmidt telescopic camera so sensitive that it could photograph a tennis ball, half-lit by the sun, 1,000 miles away, or a V-2 rocket at the distance of the moon. It covered a 13° field, 26 times the apparent diameter of the full moon, and a complicated driving mechanism swung it across the sky, fast for nearby satellites, slower for satellites farther away. On its plates the stars showed as streaks. A satellite, if one had been found, would have shown...