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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communications Act against profanity, worked hard to keep their language more sedate than the President's. Newspapers, including the New York Times ("All the News That's Fit to Print") boldly printed the initials "S.O.B." in headlines. A phrase long taboo in newspapers had been given a kind of sanction by passing through the President's mouth; S.O.B. had become editorial S.O.P...
...United Evangelical Churches. He had always been known to his friends as a man of staunch convictions. "I confess I am guilty," he said in a clear voice. "I am sincerely sorry for what I have done." He remained on the stand for three hours. He said he had given military, economic and political information to foreign intelligence agents...
...things that contributed to his repentance, said Naumov, was American literature. "When I read books describing the lives of Negroes in America and Upton Sinclair's King Coal on the sufferings of workers in America, I was depressed because the money taken from them by the capitalists was given...
...always been scaled off from the non-specialist, more by its nature than the design of the department's officials. It is a study that demands ability to read French (or Italian or Spanish) in order to get the full benefit from French (or Italian or Spanish) writers. Courses given in English translations would attract large audiences, but many instructors in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures feel strongly that such courses would lose much of the value of literature studies. Moliere in English is still a quasi-Moliere, even in a good translation...
...once being seriously considered for 1950; that this budget included the remodeling of precisely 102 more tanks of a certain type than the Army owned; that an error in calculation tacked on $30,000,000 more to the budget. The Commission recommends that the Secretary of Defense be given absolute authority over a reorganized department in which the three service secretaries would be directly responsible to him; he would have the same power in financial decisions. The commission wants to see the National Military Establishment "reconditioned under firm civilian control, putting national security over narrow service interests...