Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lolled expansively in a plush, flower-filled hotel suite far from home-in Madrid, of all places. Congressman Murphy beamed and waved a 10-in. cigar: "Wonderful people, these Spaniards. I am here absolutely on my own. I'm paying my own bills. But I just happened to mention to one of these marquises that for sightseeing I missed my own car. In an hour a magnificent car was at my disposal. Of course, I volunteered to pay for the gas, but the marquis just smiled as though he thought I was joking...
Referring to Father Murray's passing off the boycotting of offensive periodicals as a thing of ancient vintage: would it be out of order to mention Monsignor Freking's threat of a Catholic boycott of the Cincinnati Enquirer as recently as the last week in August [TIME, Sept...
...synonymous with 'crime' and, in the minds of many, with 'rape.'" In 4½ months, the respected Macon News and Sunday Telegraph-News ran 153 headlines identifying Negroes with violence or lawbreaking; in the same period, in 801 stories about white lawbreakers, only four headlines mentioned their color. The council's conclusion: "Crime is peculiar to no race, religion or national group. [Mention race only if] this information is a relevant part of the news." Relevant: NEGRO RIGHT TO PRIMARY VOTE UPHELD. Irrelevant: NEGRO ACCUSES WIFE OF STOVE-THROWING. Some Northern newspapers might copy...
...Elyria (ten miles from Lorain). From the start, Mansfield's WMAN and Elyria's WEOL were fought by the Horvitz papers-the Mansfield News-Journal (circ. 26,000) and the Lorain Journal (circ. 21,000). Merchants complained to the federal government that both papers refused to mention the radio stations, and canceled or turned down newspaper advertising contracts with businessmen who bought radio time. When the Horvitz brothers applied for licenses to start their own radio stations, they were turned down by FCC last year because of their record of "suppressing competition and establishing [advertising] monopolies...
...While talking to a Catholic Group recently, I was shocked to a realization of what is happening to the faith under the rising wave of liberalism. I happened to mention casually the Catholic dogma, 'There is no salvation outside the (Catholic) Church. Some acted as though I were uttering an innovation they had never heard before, and others had the doctrine so completely covered with reservations and vicious distinctions as to ruin its meaning and destroy the effect of its challenge. In a few minutes, the room was swarming with slogans of liberalism and sentimentalism. Taken in their totality...