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When a newspaper prints an objectionable personal reference, you can shoot the editor, but usually your only legal redress is to sue for libel. Not so in Minnesota. There they have a "Newspaper Suppression Act," called by libertarians a "Gag Law." Last week State Chief Justice S. B. Wilson ruled that the law does not violate the constitutional provision guaranteeing freedom of the press...
Minnesota's Gag Law, passed by the State Legislature in 1925, gives any district judge power to suppress any publication which in his opinion prints "malicious, scandalous and defamatory matter." To Hennepin County District Judge Fitting applied County Attorney Floyd B. Olson, in 1927, for an injunction to suppress the Minneapolis weekly, The Saturday Press. Said Attorney Olson: The Saturday Press was "a scandal sheet"; it had "maliciously slandered" him.* Judge Fitting agreed with Plaintiff Olson, issued a temporary injunction against The Saturday Press. Publishers Howard A. Guilford and J. M. Near appealed to the State Supreme Court...
...furious tempo of its entertainments may turn to the fine arts for a cultivation of their vacant time. In such a belief I am striving year after year to interpret to people, distracted by . . . worthless diversions, not only the artist's point of view, collectively, as a state of mind common' to all true artists . . . but also an artist's point of view, whichever of the million and one I happen to be considering...
...last week the formation of a subsidiary corporation (name unannounced) to consolidate under one sub-president its transport activities, which constitute 30% of all scheduled air transportation in the land. To head the sub-merger Aviation Corp. chose an expert traffic man, James Franklin Hamilton, president of New York State Railways, Schenectady Railway and United Traction...
...Faculty of Letters in the University of Clermont-Ferrand. During the War he served as captain, won the Croix de Guerre, Médaille de Léopold II. Since 1921 he has spent alternate years in France and the U. S. lecturing at Columbia, Chicago, Northwestern, Iowa State universities. Other Fa books: A Panorama of Contemporary French Literature, The Revolutionary Spirit in France and America at the Close of the Eighteenth Century, Since Victor Hugo: French Literature of Today. Franklin was the December choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club...