Word: creel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flags (1901), as the breezily beautiful Girl of The Girl of the Golden West (1905), her popularity hit tops. She retired in 1926, returned to the stage briefly in 1933 in The Lake, with Katharine Hepburn. She was married twice, the second time to World War I Propagandist George Creel...
...will not have authority to originate news. (The Creel Committee of World War I combined censorship and propaganda with total powers in both departments. ) Government press bureaus, like those of Army and Navy, will continue to issue their own releases...
...Like the Creel Committee, the new Price censorship has no authority directly to mete out punishments or forbid the publication of news. His vast powers are derived chiefly from the Espionage Act of 1917, which is still on the books...
Lacking any clear definition of treasonable and seditious news, and operating through the vague but wide terms of the Espionage Act of 1917 (which has never been repealed), the Creel Committee kept the U. S. press vacillating uneasily between timidity and hysteria...
Oftenest reputed to be in line for World War II's George Creel, if one is ever appointed, is a soft-spoken ex-newspaperman named Lowell Mellett, elder brother of Don Mellett, "the newspapermen's martyr," who was killed in 1926 by gangsters on whom he waged war as editor of the Canton (Ohio) News. Top-flight Scripps-Howard editor and executive for 16 years, Mellett parted company with Roy Howard in 1937 over editorial policy in the Supreme Court fight. Called by President Roosevelt to head the National Emergency Council, super-press bureau of the New Deal...