Word: byronism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BYRON BAGGALEY Mayor Bothell, Wash...
Censorship was still news-and still impeding the news. In the U.S. the Office of Censorship was all gone but the archives; nobody was happier to see it go, insisted Director Byron Price, than he. Last week in his final report to Harry Truman, precise, silver-haired, ex-A.P.-man Price made two cogent points: 1) any wartime censorship must "hold to the single purpose" of keeping dangerous information from the enemy; 2) "no one who does not dislike censorship should ever be permitted to exercise censorship...
...said Colonel Bernstein, flatly contradicting what Byron Price and other trippers have reported, 87% of Farben's wartime (1943) capacity remained intact. Allied bombing had done no more than halt production temporarily in some key spots. Said he: "The first view of the enormous plant at Ludwigshafen . . . is that it looks smashed. . . . [But the plant] is working today without the damage being repaired...
André Maurois, best-selling litterateur (Ariel, Byron, The Art of Living), wartime French refugee in Manhattan, and more popular abroad than in France, prepared to move west, to teach at Kansas City U. Subject: European novelists...
...philosophy from Thales (B.C. 640) to Philosopher Russell. It also discusses great religions (Greek polytheism, Judaism, Christianity, Mohammedanism) and a number of thinkers whom philosophers do not consider philosophers but whose thought and actions have been important to man's mind (St. Francis, St. Benedict, Karl Marx, Machiavelli, Byron). There are expositions of great books, Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Spinoza's Ethics, and the History is almost as full of poems as an anthology...