Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What do you mean by 'democracy,' " I asked. The question brought a long pause-as it usually does. Then the mayor said hesitantly, "Democracy is the people venturing to express themselves openly...
...Tory housewife in Southwark, was as may be. This particular picture was a long way from proving it. She took another look, then bustled over to the cupboard. There, sure enough, was the selfsame picture, neatly pasted in an old scrapbook. She had clipped it from the Daily Express, dated June 10, 1936, when Stanley Baldwin and his Tories were in charge. Its caption read, "Exclusive picture of Prince Edward,* baby son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent...
...losing more & more business to trucks, which were hauling 12% more than a year ago, and barges, which were carrying 20% more. "Rate increases," said ICC, "may be carried to the point where they are largely self-defeating." As an example, it cited the fact that while the Railway Express Agency, Inc. got three increases totaling 46% last year, its revenue decreased...
...chastened and informed effort to restore it," he declares, adding, "in very few spots is there any evidence of such an effort or even a recognition of its need." Reporters forfeited their function to the crystal-gazers. Worse, those newsmen who doubted the certainty of the polls "failed to express their doubts, partly by their intoxication with the accepted certainty; and partly, one may suspect, because they doubted that their papers would welcome a dissenting report...
...voluntarily do something about it. . . . there is little evidence that that will be the case." Nor would Winn favor the imposition of government controls. "Were that proposed, we would have to take our stand with the publishers of the daily press and fight for their right to express their opinions...