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...Ruhr question has been attacked from every conceivable angle by the press, from the lecture platform, and by individuals throughout the country, partisans of one stand or another. But the actual facts of the occupation cannot be denied and the ultimate result of that occupation is a question which now offers an extensive field for speculation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CHANCE FOR A CHANGE | 3/10/1923 | See Source »

...fact remains, however, that at a place where intellectual freedom should be the guiding spirit, a vital liberty,--freedom of the press,--was infringed. No matter what the students choose to print, faculty censorship should not be resorted to. Suppression by government is justifiable only on grounds of public emergency. In the universities, no consideration whatsoever ought to take precedence over the unrestricted expression of the students, ill-advised or tactless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACKSLIDING | 3/10/1923 | See Source »

...ancestor was hushed up, student publications here have been unmolested. It has not been merely for want of offense. Some of Lampy's outrageous puns might well bear repression. But the University, often criticised by the western colleges for ultra-conservatism, has firmly established the freedom of the student press; Michigan, for one, seems to have retrogressed toward censorship by the authorities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACKSLIDING | 3/10/1923 | See Source »

Rail executives, railway lawyers, and the press are of divided opinion as to the feasibility of Mr. Holden's plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: President Holden's Plan | 3/10/1923 | See Source »

Brigadier General Frank T. Hines, Director General of Railroads after Mr. McAdoo, was appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate in his new post of Director of the Veterans' Bureau. He made two statements to the press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Mar. 10, 1923 | 3/10/1923 | See Source »