Word: gannett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pompous Frank Gannett of Rochester, N. Y. publishes a string of dull and respectable newspapers. New Dealer Harold L. Ickes throws the most accomplished tantrums in Washington. Famed Biologist Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins, who likes to drink good beer and play the French horn, makes his views more articulate than most scientists. Last week these three had their say on the question "Do We Have A Free Press...
...Gannett (debating with Ickes on the Town Meeting of the Air program): "My answer is emphatically yes. . . . With what courage and valor editors have fought! Their plants have been bombed and burned; they have been punished and shot. ... In Europe men who criticized the government had . . . their tongues slit, ears cut off. . . . There has been no suppression of Mr. Ickes...
Ickes (on the air): "Freedom is impossible. . . . Did he [Mr. Gannett] tell his readers that he was in hock [to International Paper Co., which once owned stock in Gannett papers in Albany and Ithaca]? ... At Johns Hopkins there has been a very sensational finding resulting from study of the effect of cigaret smoking that has not appeared, so far as I know, in any newspaper in the United States...
...Have a Free Press? (Thurs. 9:30 p. m. NBC-Blue) debated by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, Publisher Frank E. Gannett before America's Town Meeting...
...Committee in charge consists of the following members: Eduard N, Ulrich '39, chairman, Lawrence F. Ebb '39, Malcomb Pirnie, Jr. '39, Bayard S. Clark '40, Paul G. Saurwein '40, Richard L. Wing '40, Michael R. Gannett '41, Charles H. Oldfather '41, and James H. Stephenson...