The Expansion of the Republic West of the Mississippi

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Clubs for the unclubbable: Humor and literary sociability

What’s a club for the unclubbable? A book or magazine. This notion underlies a strain of humor about clubs in the aftermath of Britain’s 1870 Education Act. Beneath the jokes about men gathering to hide behind their newspapers lies an earnest aspiration to create a print equivalent of a club ethos: an institution that cultivates fellow feeling. Humorists such as Jerome K. Jerome, J. M. Barrie, Israel Zangwill and G. K. Chesterton jokingly redefined the club for new classes of readers, who tended to be “unclubbable” not because of the quality of their sociability, but for reasons of class, gender, or other social factors. The imagined space of print culture created a club for these “unclubbables,” one with looser rules of affiliation. Thinking of print culture as a club sheds light on literary sociability, specifically the ways in which the simple act of reading the same book can connect us.https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/techtalks/1015/thumbnail.jp

TORTS-LIBEL AND SLANDER-ABSOLUTE PRIVILEGE TO PRESS RELEASES OF EXECUTIVE OFFICIALS

Defendant, Attorney General for the state of Pennsylvania, wrote a letter to a District Attorney demanding the dismissal of the plaintiff, an Assistant District Attorney, because of the plaintiff\u27s alleged communistic activities and associations, information of which had been brought to the attention of the defendant by the State Police. Before delivery of the letter to the District Attorney, the defendant released it to the newspapers. Plaintiff brought a libel action alleging the statements to be false and maliciously made. The defendant demurred and the court sustained. On appeal, held, affirmed. Although the defendant himself has no power to dismiss or to compel the dismissal of the plaintiff, the letter supplying information about the plaintiff was written within the scope of his powers, and it is in the public interest that he keep the public advised of his official acts; therefore, release of the letter to the press is absolutely privileged. Matson v. Margiotti, 371 Pa. 188, 88 A. (2d) 892 (1952)

Constitutional Law - Due Process - Freedom of Expression - Motion Picture Censorship

The New York Court of Appeals upheld the denial of a license to exhibit the French motion picture La Ronde\u27\u27 upon the grounds that it was immoral\u27\u27 and would tend to corrupt morals. Censorship of the picture, which dealt with promiscuous sex relations, was held to be a proper exercise of the police power, since its exhibition would present a clear and present danger to the morals of the community, and the words immoral and tend to corrupt morals were held sufficiently definite for purposes of due process. In another censorship case, the Supreme Court of Ohio affirmed the rejection for exhibition of the motion picture \u27\u27M, a film giving sympathetic treatment to a schizophrenic child killer, on the ground the picture was harmful, and held the word harmful was neither vague nor indefinite. On appeal of the two cases to the United States Supreme Court, held, reversed per curiam, Burstyn v. Wilson being cited as authority without further discussion. Superior Films, Inc. v. Department of Education of State of Ohio, Commercial Pictures Corporation v. Regents of University of State of New York, (U.S. 1954) 74 S.Ct. 286

High light stress in photosynthesis: the role of oxidative post-translational modifications in signaling and repair

Oxidative stress is a natural consequence of photosynthetic oxygen evolution and redox enzyme processes. Trp oxidation to N-formylkynurenine (NFK) is a specific, reactive oxygen species (ROS)-mediated reaction. This thesis work describes the identification and functional characterization of NFK in oxygen evolving Photosystem II (PSII). Although proteomics studies have confirmed NFK modifications in many types of proteins, limited knowledge on the biochemical significance exists. In vitro studies in thylakoids and PSII membranes were used to establish a correlation between oxidative stress, NFK formation, and photoinhibition. The in vivo effect of preventing Trp oxidation to NFK was assessed by site-directed mutation in the cyanobacteria Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. This work provides insight into the role of NFK in photosynthetic oxygen evolution and photoinhibition. Based on the current knowledge of NFK, ROS, and repair, a new model is described. In this modified model for photoinhibition and repair, NFK plays a role in signaling for turnover of damaged proteins. NFK may play a similar role in replacement of damaged proteins in other systems.PhDCommittee Chair: Bridgette A. Barry; Committee Member: David Collard; Committee Member: Ingeborg Schmidt-Krey; Committee Member: Wendy Kelly; Committee Member: Yomi Oyeler

[10] John A. Kasson, politics

A letter from Mr. John A. Kasson to Colonel Wm Moore written in Des Moines, Iowa on June 2, 1866. In the letter, Kasson discusses his upcoming campaign for representative of Iowa’s 5th congressional district in the US House of Representatives, in which he lost the nomination to Grenville Dodge.https://scholarworks.uni.edu/his_iadocuments_sp2022/1009/thumbnail.jp