Word: filed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...placate the press, Brazil's new censorship rules are considerably milder than the old. Censors stationed in news offices are withdrawn. As in Italy and Germany, newsmen file and print what they please, must accept responsibility if they violate the President's ideas of propriety. But censors are stationed in all cable offices to read outgoing dispatches-just in case...
...night 10 years ago a stranger ambled into the Chelsea, Okla. station of the Frisco Line to file a telegram. He noticed a guitar resting beside the telegraph operator, a fellow named Autry, and requested They Plowed the Old Trail Under. Autry sang it, whereupon the stranger took the guitar and sang Casey Jones. The stranger chatted a while, told Autry his voice might get him somewhere some day, handed him a stick of chewing gum, and left his telegram. It was signed "Will Rogers...
...Communists' tactics have been more successful than they could have wished, and the overwhelming majority of rank and file ASU members are now liberal, not radical. In their hands is potential control of the organization. First steps toward such control have already been taken: a National Liberal Caucus, headed by Alan Gottlieb, was formed at Madison, and under his leadership a referendum is being sought on the defeated resolution condemning Russian aggression...
Last week the left-wing Oregon Commonwealth Federation circulated initiative petitions to get Franklin Roosevelt's name on the May 17 primary ballot. Federation officials maliciously challenged John Nance Garner to file in the primary, jeered: "If your Oregon sponsors have difficulty securing requisite signatures, we offer you assistance...