Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio, controlled by the Administration through its licensing power, was made the spokesman of the New Deal and largely restricted to Government propaganda." Stung by this direct shot, the Federal Radio Commission promptly adopted a resolution "requesting" Publisher Reid to present "any facts or other material" in support of Herald Tribune's editorial. As a matter of "principle," Publisher Reid respectfully refused to render the commission "an account concerning our editorial comment," tartly calling attention to the First Amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing free press and free speech. By way of answer, however, the Herald Tribune last week published...
...Facing a possible death sentence on his expensive property every half year, it is only human that the broadcaster should endeavor, as the popular phrase so prettily puts it, not to stick his neck out." Taken by the Tribune as a direct warning to broadcasters to pull in their necks was the announcement by Radio Commissioner Harold A. Lafount last August: "It is the patriotic, if not the bounden and legal duty, of all licensees . . . to deny their facilities to advertisers who are disposed to defy, ignore or modify the codes established...
...from Teheran toward Turkey. There is no through railway yet but the motor road over which His Majesty zipped from Teheran through Tabriz and Erzerum to the Turkish coast at Trebizond is now in prime shape to become an artery of heavy trucking and carry Persian carpets on a direct route to Europe. For trade with Russia and possible defense Persia is in course of being spanned by the line from Bandar Shapur via the Anglo-Persian oil country and Teheran to Bandar Shah. The line will make it possible for the first time to cross Persia by rail. With...
What Archbishop McNicholas was able to announce on his porch last week was that, as a direct result of the Legion of Decency's campaign, the producers' jury would be abolished. Henceforth Censor Breen's staff will be increased, his powers widened so that his edicts can be vetoed only by the directors of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. For any producer to assemble these gentlemen in executive session will be an expensive and lengthy...
...Washington, where Ohio's Senators Fess and Bulkley called at RFC headquarters to put in a good word for a state industry, RFC Chairman Jesse Jones seemed sympathetic. Willys-Overland had applied for its loan a month before, not directly, but through a mortgage association. Thus the application did not technically come under the Direct Loans to Industry bill which President Roosevelt signed last week and which limits to $500,000 the amount of money RFC may loan to one company...