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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It is one of the unfortunate verities that corporate studies such as that of the Commission on the Freedom of the Press [TIME, March 31] lose much of their impact and value therefore by the very objectivity and academic correctness of their compositors. Thus, as TIME points out, the report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 28, 1947 | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

Chang, formerly a visiting professor at American and British universities and one-time Chinese minister to Turkey and Chile, will base his speech upon the wide knowledge of the problems of minorities which won him the vice-chairmanship of the U. N. Commission on Human Rights. Eleanor Roosevelt, chairman of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.N. Delegate to Speak on Human Rights at Parley | 4/26/1947 | See Source »

Like cullers grading a catch of salt cod for market, Newfoundland's National Convention sifted forms of government. The 45 members (TIME, July 8) drew their $10 to $15 a day apiece, and took their time. For six months they bickered and bantered on everything from relief to roads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NEWFOUNDLAND: No Union Now | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

The United Press felt the same way. The U.P. had built Packard's by-line into a big name; but it was a name known more for flamboyance than accuracy. Pack had once summed up his odd philosophy in three sentences which would have horrified the Commission on Freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: China Incident | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

He was speaking literally. Before the Blue left home (NBC) in 1942, it had nothing to wear but castoffs-speeches, discussions, classical music-from its flashy big sister, NBC's Red Network. When NBC got rid of the Blue (by request of the Federal Communications Commission), Woods became its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Network Without Ulcers | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

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