Word: actions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Call of the Hour. The civil authorities on whom Father Lombardi called last week had realized at last that action was urgent. A government law, passed three years ago, had granted Italy's peasants the right to move onto certain fallow lands-provided they first obtained permission from provincial committees set up to consider their claims. The committees have been working at a snail's pace; with his usual policy of trying to please everyone-the landowners as well as the peasants-De Gasperi had pleased no one. Last week the government was readying a new and better...
...Logan temperately asked for the substitution of "acceptable programs which would be suitable for family viewing and listening . . ." FCCommissioner Wayne Coy thanked Mrs. Logan for her report and called it a "good job." The Los Angeles stations had no comment, except for KNBH, which replied that her action would only call attention to the very things she disliked and thereby create further interest in them...
...stations joined the crusade. Walter J. Damm, general manager of Milwaukee's WTMJ-TV, which had already turned down NBC's Lights Out and CBS's Suspense, and called for a nationwide cleanup, said that? "the time has come for independent TV stations to take positive action about the whodunits." In St. Louis, General Manager George M. Burbach of KSD-TV said that he had been deluging NBC for months with "our objections to gory programs of all kinds. We're convinced that horror on television is a mistake and bound to bring unfavorable mass reaction...
...student representatives will also discuss action on the Naval ROTC loyalty oath...
Agitation for the elimination of loyalty oath requirements for Navy ROTC students spread Saturday afternoon when representatives of five Harvard organizations decided to recommend to their respective groups that they band together for both local and nation-wide action...