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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officials' views favor suppression of critics of the government, do not favor unions or income taxes. One article recently read before a class of Military Science 1 students described an encounter between Socialist strikers and constabulary on a sugar plantation in Manila. The Instructor's comment was: "When the employer is good enough to furnish some food and a hut and some clothes for the poor workers, they ought to be happy, but then these Socialist agitators come in and try to make them feel discontented." Attacking income taxation, an instructor once read an item complaining that state and federal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: G. H. Q. | 4/25/1940 | See Source »

...Never bring anything valuable to college," however, was his disgusted comment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLICE FIND STOLEN WATCH IN PAWN SHOP IN ROXBURY | 4/20/1940 | See Source »

...attention has been called to the news story in the Crimson on March 27th. Normally I should not, of course, regard a news story in the Crimson as a matter for any comment, regardless of its content. The exception to this rule, however, seems to me to be created by your article, which has attracted the interest of the outside press. I therefore beg to protest against what seems to be a totally irresponsible piece of journalism which violates not only the canons of good taste but the sound rule that unfounded rumors should not be used "to make news...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 4/18/1940 | See Source »

...persons upon whose critical ability Dr. Cantril does not comment were the two hard-rock Princeton geologists who heard that something had fallen near by, promptly set out, hammers in hand, to have a scientific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Anatomy of a Panic | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...people every week hear symphonic music in the movies, whether they know it or not. Mostly they do not know it: Hollywood believes that music should be pure background. The European approach is different: its cinema music is supposed to compel the hearer's attention, to comment on the action of the film, to say things the characters leave unsaid. Briton Arthur Bliss's score for H. G. Wells's Things To Come has had concert performances (TIME, July 17). Some U. S. films, most of them documentary, have owed much to music of this sort. Virgil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Movie Music | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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