Commission on Freedom of the Press records Ruth A. Inglis papers on the Commission on Freedom of the Press 1944-1948

Leigh, Robert D. (Robert Devore), 1890-

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Director of the Inquiry, 1947-1950 & author (Columbia University M.A. 1915, Ph.D. 1927). The Public Library Inquiry was a comprehensive survey of the American public library system by the Social Science Research Council. From the description of Robert D. Leigh papers ca.1947-1955. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 606938669 ...

Commission on Freedom of the Press

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Funded by grants from Time, Inc., and Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., the Commission on Freedom of the Press was appointed in 1944 to investigate the freedom, function, and responsibilities of the major agencies of mass communication. Commission members included Robert Hutchins, chairman; Zechariah Chaffee, vice-chairman; John M. Clark; John Dickinson; William E. Hocking; Harold Lasswell; Archibald MacLeish; Charles Merriam; Reinhold Niebuhr; Robert Redfield; Beardsley Ruml; Arthur Schlesinger; ...

Inglis, Ruth A., 1912-

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The Commission on Freedom of the Press studied the freedom and accountability of the press. It was formed in 1942 by Robert Maynard Hutchins, president and later chancellor of the University of Chicago, with the financial support of Time Magazine founder Henry Luce. Over its history, the commission produced several reports. It was sometimes known as the (Robert) Hutchins Commission. Ruth A. Inglis was on the staff of the commission as research assistant and later was a member of the commission. ...

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