Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ownership of strategic bases is not nearly so important as permission to use them. (Some reporters went so far as to predict that the U.S. would consent to exchanging some of its vast supply of commercial planes in return for rights to use some of Britain's bases...
Thus, in London last week, the Polish Government in Exile pictured the first meetings of Polish and Russian forces. They were meetings fraught with uncertainty: can the Polish underground and the Red Army cooperate on soil whose ownership is bitterly disputed by their respective Governments? Reported London: In two localities the Red Army had "shot" underground soldiers; in 14 localities cooperation had been "satisfactory...
...Leonard Elmhirst is not the owner of the New Republic. Ownership was transferred a number of years ago from the editors to Editorial Publications, Inc., a New York corporation. During the whole history of the magazine no attempt has ever been made by its financial sponsors to influence the editors. When we make mistakes, as we are perfectly capable of doing, they are our own mistakes...
...Assemblymen, more intent on security than on freedom, voted down a guarantee of liberty of political expression. They did vote to prohibit press ownership to 1) industrialists; 2) administrative officials; 3) persons of large commercial or farm interests. Effect of this would be to: 1) abolish that part of the French press that has collaborated with Vichy (most French papers have); 2) revive the Vichy-suppressed papers and those which had ceased to publish rather than play the Nazi game...
...answer to a devastating Times attack on Tribune editorial policy, McCormick printed an editorial "These Jackals Grow Too Bold," referring to "old fat men who sit in comfortable offices fanning hysteria." Thomason spent a whole day devising a response which could be passed through the mails. Excerpts: "The ownership of rich properties does things to some people-to some newspapers. . . . Sometimes such owners mistake wealth and its power for greatness...