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Of course, it is not up to the President to interpret "voluntary censorship." He can only enforce his will if Congress legislates compulsory censorship, or if he absolutely refuses to give any member of the press sensitive information--and threatens reporters with more serious reprisals if they look elsewhere for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The President and the Press | 10/30/1962 | See Source »

(2) The current congressional investigations are not bona fide hearings for legislative purposes within the constitutional of local education, Congress cannot legislates in this field of local education, are has it over sought to do so. Historically public educational institutions have been regulated locally by municipalities and states. Private institutions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lawyer Discusses Government Investigations of Colleges | 3/19/1953 | See Source »

Charging that the New Deal party "by insidious degrees, surreptitiously legislates toward the objective of autocracy," Senator Austin told his G.O.P. audience to vote for Wendell L. Willkie "in the cause of saving the American way of life."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TORCH LIGHT PARADE LEADS TO FINAL REPUBLICAN RALLY | 11/5/1940 | See Source »

*The 225 sq. mi. around Tangier were internationalized in 1904 when France and Spain partitioned Morocco. The U. S. joined 26 other nations in the Act of Algeciras (1906), which followed Kaiser Wilhelm IPs insistence that the Sultan of Morocco continue to rule, though under French-Spanish protection. Thus the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: Italy in Arms | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

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