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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...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; the appeal was denied, the injunction made permanent. Last week their second appeal to the State Supreme Court was denied. Ruled the court "[The Saturday Press] was regularly and customarily devoted to malicious, scandalous and defamatory matter. ... In our opinion, the law violates neither the State nor the Federal Constitution." Counsel for The Saturday Press promised that the case...
...Manhattan last week alert listeners at a Philadelphia Orchestra concert noticed that in the Bach Toccata and Fuge the basses had a new, if perhaps unneeded, sonority and strength. They had previously speculated about a strange black cabinet which stood in the orchestra. A few of the curious investigated afterward, discovered that the cabinet was a variety of the Theremin ether-wave instrument (TIME, Feb. 6, 1928, et seq.) being used as a regular, recognized member of the orchestra. The new instrument was made especially for Conductor Leopold Stokowski, called a Thereminophone and differed from the better known RCA Theremin...
...Schelling looked on with greedy eye. Iturbi sneaked his portion away, took it back to his hotel and sent it, adorned with two candles, to his twelve-year-old daughter in Paris. Soon afterward he appeared as Philharmonic Soloist under Mengelberg, won the acclaim of critics and public alike. Last week he gave a Manhattan recital solo...
Homer nodded; Shakespeare gave Bohemia a seacoast; Michelangelo painted Adam with a navel. Last week the august New York Times slipped and fell. Readers of the Times read a pathetic story about a deer, frightened, running for its life through the streets of Brooklyn. Circumstantial was the Times reporter. Said he: "The wanderer was not a large deer, as deer go. It had a manner that plainly showed it expected very little from life", According to the Times, the deer was small, had no antlers. The story spoke of children and Santa Claus. The deer's fate was tragic...