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Paul Blanshard's "American Democracy and Catholic Power" deals with a specific example of the general problem of the special interest group in a democracy. What makes this particular special interest group worthy of individual consideration is: 1) its size, 2) the international and authoritarian nature of the hierarchy that controls it, and 3) the fact that, unlike most of the other special interest groups with which American Democracy is currently confronted, the Roman Catholic Church in its special interest role seeks not the economic advancement of its members but control over the morals, education, and free expression of members...
Because the Church is a minority group in America, its methods of control here are different from those in Spain, for example. Spain comes near the Church ideal, the state which restricts its functions to the maintenance of order while subsidizing the Church in its control of education and morals. In America the strategy involves threats of boycott to offending newspapers, magazines, movie producers and distributors, and radio stations; establishment of a separate school system and attempts to infiltrate and control the public school system; and attempts to force legislative bodies, by the customary pressure group means, to impose...
...Barter, busy last week planning a summer season with the largest Equity company outside Manhattan, is still run by Robert Porterfield. Porterfield founded the group in 1932 with 21 down & out actors, $1 in cash and a policy of barter at the box office. The first season's receipts were 10% cash and 90% pigs, game and produce; it wound up with a profit of $4.30 and two barrels of jelly...
Last week, after a nationwide survey of 1,776 companies, Manhattan's hardheaded Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. predicted that all U.S. sales for the second half of 1949 will show an average decline of only 3.3% under 1948's record total. The group surveyed did not expect more than a drop of 3.6% in profits on the average-ranging from 5.1% for the durable goods companies and 4.2% for the wholesalers, to 3.6% for the retailers and only 2.5% for the non-durables...
...Harvard camp explained that an observation boat anchored near the finish line at Bartlett's Cove is for invited guests only. It was chartered by a group of Harvard students...