Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Should AMERICA'S College Professors be pro-AMERICAN? A thought-provoking contrast in points of view from Bloomfield College...
...college head wrote that Schuman had attacked the policies of both America and Russia, that he was an advocate "of a stronger form of international government than the United Nations," and that he had "freely criticized the Communists for many years...
...terming the movie 'Oliver Twist' "sensitive and powerful," Mr. Friedrich offers no excuse for not prohibiting such a picture in America. Nor is the fact that Bill Sykes is as villainous as Fagin any reason to deny the poisonous hate expressed in the picture. For it is well-known that the majority group need never fear lest one of its members misbehave; whilst the persecuted minority is always categorized by the behavior of its worst rather than best, members...
From a quiet office in Manhattan, Engineer George Q. Herrick, of the Voice of America, was fighting a furious electronic battle last week for Russia's radio audience. His weapons were powerful transmitters spotted through the northern hemisphere. His projectiles were radio waves. Herrick chalked up a victory whenever the Voice's broadcasts broke through Soviet jamming to reach Russian ears...
Soviet transmitters began jamming the Voice's Russian-language programs in February 1948. They were not too successful then, but last month a mighty barrage of jamming broke out. It practically obliterated the Russian-language programs of both the Voice of America and the British Broadcasting Corp. Directional receivers proved that the Russians had put 150 transmitters...