Word: monitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crude form attacks the character of a man without giving his defense, and serves as pimp to the sensation lovers of the community. The refined form attacks a man's opinions without giving him a hearing and purveys to the prejudices of the opposed group. The Christian Science Monitor is an eminently respectable newspaper. In its godliness, it steers clear of all things lascivious or scandalous. But it is not above shutting off its opponents without a hearing and then publishing attacks on them. In the early part of May, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University...
...words of a front page news story of The Christian Science Monitor, two of whose hobbies are women and Prohibition: "The American woman is going forth to war, a ballot in her hand and that which has been reckoned as a political impossibility-a solid woman vote-is threatening in the Spring primaries as well as in the Fall elections. . . . They are aroused over what they regard as a patriotic issue, a challenge to citizenship, an attack on every moral fibre of the nation. The grandmother with a purpose can be more formidable than the political leader or the officeholder...
...plan for peace by property conscription advance by "The Christian Science Monitor" last November has been presented before the congressional committee now engaged in investigation the feasibility of such a plan...
...foster amity among nations; coöperation between Capital and Labor; equal opportunity for all, and liberty under law and order"-these were the purposes with which the late Frederick Dixon, formerly of The Christian Science Monitor, founded The International Interpreter, a "Worldwide News Weekly," two years ago. Now the Interpreter asks its readers to decide whether it shall continue to publish or not. Within a month The Freeman has gone on the rocks and ceased publication (TiME, Feb. 4), The Independent went into bankruptcy (TiME, Feb. 11) and was sold. Now the Interpreter which, according to its profession, "only...
...visit of Mr. Johnson to Egypt was of concern to the Monitor's readers, it might have had the despatch cabled, or have interviewed Mr. Johnson on his arrival. The publication of the correspondence without apology was an indication of one of the worst of journalistic faults, laziness...