Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even before Senator La Follette grabbed the frightful film, Paramount had decided not to release it on the ground that such an unrelieved record of blood and brutality was liable to touch off more riots. Said Paramount News Editor A. J. Richard in reply to a Civil Liberties body which challenged the suppression: ". . . Please remember that whereas newspapers reach individuals in the home, we show to a public gathered in groups averaging 1,000 or more and therefore subject to crowd hysteria when assembled in the theatre." One man who saw the film explained: "It made me want...
...days later Sir John Reith, chief of British Broadcasting Corp., decided that he, too, would give the Basque children a treat. To the tent-city near Southampton where 2,000 of the refugees are being housed, he went with a radio van. When news came that Bilbao had fallen (see p. 20), Sir John, against the advice of the camp's Basque officials, decided to broadcast the bad news...
...most significant of the whole convention was the one to amend the Guild constitution so as to throw the organization open to workers in advertising, circulation, business and other unorganized departments, and to apply for affiliation in the C. I. O. Rolypoly Reporter Robert Buck of the Washington News has constituted himself the leader of the Guild's loyal opposition ever since the union was founded. His faction, conservative and contrary individuals from the Southwest and Midwest who resent the "New York domination," approved joining C. I. O. but opposed broadening the union's membership base...
...actual use of force have been successful, an approach to homogeneity has been attained. Here is one world, and woe to the man who does not conform to it in thought as well as in action. I hardly need give illustrations. We are all too familiar with them, --the news from Russia and Germany almost daily illustrates the intellectual tyranny of a totalitarian state. There can be little room, indeed, for a nonconformist in a country where the Minister of Education declares: "The old idea of Science based on the belief in the supremacy of the abstract intellect is finished...
...News Commencement date Set for Thursday before last Wednesday in June, Death of Owen Wister...