Word: offenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commercialization" of tutoring vis-a-vis the Athenian gentility of Harvard, I agree that it is indeed fortunate for free education in a free society that university teachers are not paid and so may speak the truth as they see it, not caring a whitney what powers they offend. Lester Cramer...
Jolt for the Left. But the Reutherites were still not satisfied. Murray made a diplomat's gambit. He appointed a committee to draw up a resolution which would satisfy the right wing and not offend the left. The six-man committee was delicately balanced. From the right wing: Reuther; Milton Murray* of the Newspaper Guild; onetime Socialist Emil Rieve of the textile workers; from the left: the furriers' Communist boss, Ben Gold; red-hot Michael Quill of the transport workers, who has been denying for years that he is a Communist; the white-collar workers' pink Abram...
...spotlight to single them out. ... All this spells out a strong case to me for a strengthened and better-enforced Code of Standards. ... I would like to see a Code which would serve to enhance all stations subscribing to it, and raise serious questions about stations which offend against it. ... As I see it now, there is only one acceptable way to enforce it-and that is, the spotlight of publicity...
...Offend. The Herald (as many U.S. papers once did) still gets a wire at 11:30 every night, telling what the New York Times is featuring on Page One, and governs itself accordingly. Controlled by lawyers, industrialists, financiers (the law firm of Choate, Hall and Stewart, the United Shoe Machinery Corp. and Old Colony Trust Co.), the Herald is frankly sensitive to the viewpoint of the "interests," has an editorial page to match. Publisher Choate once told a newsman: "It is natural that as sound business interests own the paper, we shall reflect their point of view." But the Republican...
...would be unfair [to suggest] that all censorship is harmful or silly. It isn't. . . . Broadcasters quite understandably don't like to offend individuals, minority groups, religious orders, advertisers or members of other nationalities. . . . The intentions are good but the administration is ridiculous. . . . For example...