Word: furor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midst of the furor over newsmen who were members of the Communist Party (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the 27,302-member American Newspaper Guild last week took a clear-cut stand on a problem that has been worrying it for years. At its 22nd annual convention in Albany, N.Y., the Guild unanimously voted not to defend the employment rights of any member who is an admitted or proved Communist Party member...
Check List. Most of the furor centered around Honaman's definition of "constructive" news. Said Honaman: "There are . . . many cases where demands for information which take up the time of people with busy schedules do not truly meet the requirements of being useful or valuable, nor yet very interesting to the public." The A.S.N.E.'s Wiggins promptly pointed out that Honaman's definition meant that he-and not newsmen-would decide what the public is likely to be interested...
...Grace of God. In the furor Cutter competitors, taking the view that but for the grace of God it might have been they, rallied to the embattled firm. Winthrop-Stearns's President Theodore Klumpp wired: THROUGH YOUR UNEXCELLED PRESTIGE AND REPUTATION I AM CERTAIN IT WILL WORK OUT ALL RIGHT...
...pair of murals painted in the museum transept during this period aroused a new furor when their artist, Jacob Rubenstein, was accused of developing his commissioned themes into anti-Nazi propaganda. One of the pictures portrays a figure in jack-boots and a Sam Brown belt whipping a group of slaves, while the other depicts an attack by a party of modernly equipped warriors upon an enemy using shields and spears. The museum, however, still officially denies any direct analogy to the third Reich...
POLITICAL DUST-UP over CAB attempts to knock two small Alaskan airlines out of their profitable Stateside routes (TIME, Jan. 3) has raised such a furor that CAB has now decided to let them alone. It will recommend that both Pacific Northern Airlines and Alaska Airlines continue to operate into Seattle and Portland along with the big lines, Pan American and Northwest...