Word: organ
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish that there were journalistic allies by our side. We wish that the Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, Scribners, were with us. We wish that the Nation, the New Republic, the Outlook (Lyman Abbott must have turned over in his grave when that paper recently became the most liquor-soaked organ in the country), the Literary Digest, TIME, the Forum, the World Tomorrow, or any other of the major weeklies were with us. But they are not. One dares to hope that among them one or two converts may yet be made...
...President addressed the Association of National Advertisers, meeting in Washington (see p. 48). Some listeners thought they detected a trace of banter in his voice as he said: "Advertising . . . certainly is the vocal organ by which industry sings its songs of beguilement. . . . You have stirred the lethargy of the old law of supply and demand. . . . You also contribute to hurry up the general use of every discovery in science and every invention in industry. . . . Your latest contribution to constructive joy is to make possible the hourly spread of music, entertainment and political assertion to the radio sets...
...extra curricula activity and these in turn are often under the thumb of the college faculty. The hierarchy which is thus formed is an efficient method for political control and administration, but it completely destroys the independence of a college paper and much of its usefulness as an organ of student opinion. If editors are forced to fear the wrath of a higher authority, their editorials are bound to hedge on all controversial subjects and tend to be reduced below the level of unopinionated explanations...
...Italo-French relations is that Italian Foreign Minister Dino Grandi is friendly to French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, is doing his best to keep the "wild man" fairly quiet. Last week's speech by Signore Mussolini was therefore almost ignored by the semi-official Paris Temps. But L'Avenir (organ of the Center) burst out: "The French Government should declare once and for all to the blackshirts and their German friends that we intend to revise nothing whatever! We will no more demolish the Versailles peace treaty to please Mussolini than to satisfy that crazy man Hitler. Let them understand...
...their vocations, do not ordinarily carry firearms.) Gouty peers, ruffling through the London Evening Standard learned last week that: "Gunmen have struck terror into the hearts of inhabitants of the big American cities . . . their police are helpless." Finally, at the other end of the social scale, the Daily Herald, organ of reigning British Labor, explained Legs and his like wholly in terms of Prohibition. "Bad laws may breed lawlessness," said the Herald...