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...Hearst did not telegraph en route to his nearest editor (Omaha News-Bee). Nor could he contain himself until he reached the next-nearest Hearst city, Chicago. Instead, he arranged to be met in Kansas City by a representative of that city's daily Star, a most independent un-Hearstlike newspaper. Into the Star man's hands Mr. Hearst delivered a 3,000 word statement entitled: "We Need Laws We can Respect." He requested the Star man explicitly to see that the Star should publish the statement in full...
...McCormick described the Minnesota law as "tyrannical, despotic, un-American and offensive," declared that it would place the press in a position where it could be silenced by any corrupt administration. Hitherto the courts have had power to punish libelous publications, but this law gives them power to prevent publications entirely. What is more it enables a whole file of a paper, extending over a period of three months or more, to be placed in evidence, and permits stopping publication entirely unless the publisher can prove every statement that has appeared in all that time?a thing practically impossible...
...greatest achievement was Charles Augustus Lindbergh. In 1927 that sensitive plant, Franco-American relations, was in a precarious state due to the un- fortunate flight of the French flyers Nungesser and Coli. Shy, Nordic Lindbergh was just what the clever diplomat needed. He rushed to Le Bourget waving French and U. S. flags; seized on "Lucky Lindy" with avidity; put him to bed in his own diplomatic pajamas; wrapped him in the tricolor; had him photographed, interviewed, dined and decorated; and caused the greatest enthusiasm for things U. S. since French transports of joy hailed the first U. S. transports...
...Boston Club speeches on the House Plan disclose the position of University Hall on several not un-important details regarding the working out of the proposed social scheme. Mr. Greenough's mention of a "high table" in the dining hall for the resident masters and tutors, and of a separate common room for the same officials presents a jarring note in the utopian outline of the Harkness project...
...avowed leading aims of the new Houses has been to establish a social and intellectual concord between student and instructor, in short, to develop further President Lowell's conception of the University as a group of experienced and un-experienced students working together for the same end. It has been proposed to aid this aim by providing a common eating place to bring the men together. But contact between them would be decidedly hindered if one or the other had first to hurdle over the impediment of a "high table". The social touch in bringing tutor and student to dine...