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Historians will probably find it no great job to riddle the argument of Dr. Beard's book. It will not be so easy to ignore his emphatic conclusion: "At this point in its history the American Republic has arrived under the theory that the President of the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Side Door to War? | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

3. On the Commission on Academic Freedom: That the IUS strike at specific prejudices which misrepresent and hinder academic freedom, and avoid sweeping statements.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: American Proposals For Prague Student Conference Approved | 8/2/1946 | See Source »

At the present moment Americans are loudly praising our freedom of the press and insisting that all other nations should do as we do, but if freedom of the press confers the license to misrepresent and antagonize a friendly country, to insult and libel her sovereign, then our version of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 4, 1946 | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

Though fully aware of her theatrical inexperience, Novelist Lillian Smith decided to dramatize Strange Fruit herself for fear that an "outside dramatist" would misrepresent the book. Says she: "I knew it would have been easy to make a racial Romeo and Juliet out of it ... I wanted a panoramic picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 10, 1945 | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

Have American mothers any defense against being included by inference in such public immodesties? Is there any method whereby these females may be restrained from vulgarizing and holding up to ridicule a name so far held as honorable among us? Can they continue to misrepresent the American ladies whose sons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 24, 1941 | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

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