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...cable editor criticized American censorship for its lack of organization or centralization of authority. Giving as an example one scoop from Australia, he told of the difficulty of giving accurate news when all stories must pass through the hands of army, navy, and Washington censors, all of whom may contradict each other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHICAGO SUN'S CABLE EDITOR SAYS COMMUNIQUES BEST SOURCE OF NEWS | 5/19/1942 | See Source »

...trial was a witch hunt. Because Italian law holds prisoners guilty until they are proved innocent, it was his job to see they were not proved innocent. According to Giornale d'ltalia, "the ability of the President [Tringali-Casanuova] who questioned him [Skuka] rigorously made him [Skuka] contradict himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Witch Hunt | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

...dollars have not flowed so easily into the expected channels. The Harvard N.Y.A. administration committee has indicated that priority will be granted to those departments of the University which need additional money to help fill in the gaps caused by the recent budget slashes. Such a policy seems to contradict the University's original declaration that N.Y.A. money would in no way replace one penny of the million dollars Harvard already gives its students ins scholarships, loans, and jobs. It means also the organizations like P.B.H., which were not affected by recent changes in monetary policy, are left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Bonus For Brooks House | 5/21/1941 | See Source »

...Recently I was talking with some other British children. Rather naturally the conversation was about America, and Americans. About the impression we have recieved of the people and their country. I should like you, and all other Americans to know, and I do not think one British evacuee whould contradict me. That the impression which will go back to England with us, will not be fair, nor medium, but very good indeed. It will be an impression of some of the kindest, most hospitable and generous people in the world. ANNE DAY Brookline, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 3, 1941 | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

...Millikan, Caltech's famed cosmic-ray authority who used to say that atomic power was a visionary dream, was "unavailable" to reporters who wanted to know whether he agreed or not. As a friend of Mr. Dunn's, he may possibly not have wanted to contradict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atomic Power in Ten Years? | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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