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Forced thus to censor themselves, radiomen were placed not only in the position of having to observe a special set of taboos, but of daring to err only in one direction, by being too conservative. Frank McNinch's letter was as good as official notice to the radio industry that its future lies in entertainment and education but not in rivaling the press...
...TIME err in saying that Samuel Goldwyn was never associated with M-G-M (TIME, Nov. 15, p. 42) ? According to The Great Goldwyn by Alva Johnston, Goldwyn was once a part of MGM. Evidently this must be correct for rumor has it that Goldwyn bought 5,000 copies [of this book...
...safe for the stupid and for those overwise in their own conceits- by policing every traveler on that road? Are we to mark the way of the Lord through business laws and ethics according to the specifications of the Prophet Isaiah -so that wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein? Maybe so. But I have not yet had a release to announce that Isaiah's way of the saints is to be staked out through the New York Stock Exchange as a Federal project. . . . Let us patrol well our 20th-century business highway! Let us crucify the thieves...
Tell us, please, did Professor Wieland actually stoop to plagiarism in the heat of his controversy with Secretary Ickes or did TIME'S Science editor err in identifying an apt quotation as an "original composition...
...err, however, in saying that Pennsylvania German is a mixture of German, Dutch and English. It is really a congeries of Low German, corrupt High German and (often incorrectly formed) English. There is no Dutch whatever in it, though certainly it is a comical language...