Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only practical U.S. policy in 1823. But at the same time that he made this pronouncement, Monroe served notice that the U.S. had become a power with which European nations would have to reckon, and extended U.S. interest over the whole of the Western Hemisphere. One of the modern misconceptions of history is that the Monroe Doctrine was isolationist. The Monroe Doctrine was the first big step in an expanding foreign policy, which continued to expand under succeeding Presidents and Secretaries of State...
...State Department had spent $49,000 buying up U.S. modern paintings to show the world. By last week State's two traveling exhibitions had gotten as far as Haiti and Prague. That seemed about as far as they would...
Andor Foldes, New York pianist, will present a concert of modern music at the Paine Music Building at 8:30 tonight in the first of two Department-sponsored programs this week. Sunday evening the California String Quartet will perform selections from Schubert, Barati, and Beethoven. Both concerts are open to the public and are free...
...many years in many nations, men have waged the battle for freedom of expression. In modern days, the means of mass communication--newspapers, magazines, radio, and motion pictures--have arisen as a new and vital factor in that fight. This exceptionally clearly-written Report has contributed one of the most worthwhile and comprehensive analyses ever undertaken of these American information media. It concludes that freedom of the press is in danger not so much from government interference as from the men who direct its activities, that the press has not yet accepted the full measure of its responsibility...
...Report indicates, the modern press is a social phenomenon grown to such proportions in influencing the minds of men that it cannot any longer be considered private property responsible to no one but its owners. Its responsibility nowadays is primarily to the community. Therefore, some control becomes inescapable. "The freedom of the press can remain a right of those who publish only if it incorporates into itself the right of the citizen and the public interest." If it continues to be in so many cases inflammatory, irresponsible, and sensational, an increasing demand will inevitably come forth for a federal control...