Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Wallace, 51, Secretary of Agriculture, author of Corn and Corn Growing, onetime editor of Wallace's Farmer, has a reputation as the dreamer of the Roosevelt Administration. He is, says Arthur Krock, "a high-minded, thoughtful man, a progressive, one of the best writers in the New Deal, compassionate and intelligent." But, adds Mr. Krock-like many an observer before him-the Secretary has no sense of timing. When the slaughtered pigs are better forgotten, according to all New Deal strategists, he delivers a carefully phrased explanation of the policy that led to their slaughtering; addressing restive, hard...
...Pius XII. Like some of the others, he had made private peace negotiations. Now, in the first encyclical of his reign, he grieved that "our advice, if heard with respect, was not, however, followed." Summi Pontificatus accepted War II as an inevitable finish fight, although its author pledged himself to try to "hasten the day when the dove of peace may find on this earth, submerged in a deluge of discord, somewhere to alight...
...thesis, with trimmings. Last week he returned to his attack in a book (America's House of Lords, an Inquiry into the Freedom of the Press*) richly documented with I-told-you-so's. America's House of Lords develops the same thesis which its author outlined on the air last winter: there is no danger that the U. S. will impose any Government control upon newspapers, but it doesn't have to: the press is already censored by its business connections and advertisers. Publishers suppress facts which are financially dangerous, distort facts to influence public...
Research gathered by Author Ickes to support his contention is impressive, comes largely from such unimpeachable sources as Editor & Publisher and from newspapermen's own writings. Thereby Mr. Ickes makes himself a monkey. For Ickes quotes so many criticisms of the press by newsmen themselves that he overturns his own argument, shows that, if many publishers diligently suppress unpleasant facts, others with equal diligence uncover them. He offers no panacea to correct the abuses he recites, piously admits that "We cannot control the press without losing our essential liberties...
...engaging job of muckraking is America's House of Lords. Author Ickes sounds like what he is: a public official who has on occasion been irritated beyond endurance by things he read in the papers. Having said his piece, he concludes: "I feel better about the American press now than I did six months ago," presumably winds up his debate...