Word: toed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
*In the course of a series of 13 articles on vice in Minneapolis, The Saturday Press said that Attorney Olson was either blind to conditions or had a motive for not prosecuting.
José Iturbi was born in Valencia 34 years ago. In his early 'teens he won honors at the Valencia and Paris Conservatories but today he says that he has learned most by listening. At 24, while playing in a Zurich café, he was asked to go to...
Two months ago Iturbi arrived in the U. S. Sailing up Manhattan harbor, he wept. He went to a hotel chosen for him by his manager, rang for tea but, knowing no English, failed to make the waiter understand. He shrugged his shoulders, sat down at the piano, played Tea...
Conductor Willem Mengelberg of the New York Philharmonic welcomed Iturbi on his return to Manhattan. He gave him a birthday party, had a many-layered cake fashioned to represent a skyscraper. Iturbi, hugely pleased, cut it with a swoop while Pianist Ernest Schelling looked on with greedy eye. Iturbi sneaked...