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...told of the President Emeritus in connection, with his deafness. After the service at a certain church he went up to the minister and apologized for not being able to come oftener but that he didn't hear very well. Whereupon the minister suggested that he sit in a pew in which an acousticon had been installed, "Oh, no, no," President Lowell replied, "it's nothing physical, It's nothing physical...
Freedom of Press. If any outsider had the notion that Freedom of the Press was only a well-chewed bone of a few watchdog's like Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick and Editor Marlen Pew of Editor & Publisher, the convention proved the contrary. With a few notable exceptions, the rank & file of U. S. publishers genuinely believe that the Administration is capable of imposing censorship, that they scored a momentous victory in forcing into the Newspaper Code a clause reaffirming the Constitutional guarantee of a free Press. Cheered to the rafters was Col. McCormick, chairman...
...helped him in his early researches. He expected substantial backing also from General Motors until Depression upset his plans. Last March he organized Seadrome Ocean Dock Corp., with himself as president and majority stockholder. His backers include GM's Board Chairman Lammot du Pont and President John Howard Pew...
...journalistic fraternity of Sigma Delta Chi meeting last week in Chicago, its honorary president, Editor Marlen Edwin Pew of Editor & Publisher, spoke on "Editorial Criticism as a Constructive Influence in Public Affairs." After deploring the censorships of Mussolini, Stalin and Hitler, Editor Pew told of a recent visit to the White House by a group of U. S. newsmen. Said Editor Pew: "I heard the President say that he was dumbfounded by the almost unanimous support given to his program by the American Press. . . . He said, 'But there is a fly in the ointment, gentlemen. Where is your criticism...
Almost as vigorous a sentinel over Press rights as Editor Marlen Pew of Editor & Publisher is Dean Carl William Ackerman of Columbia University's School of Journalism. Last week Dean Ackerman made his annual report to President Nicholas Murray Butler, told him that the Press had averted a U. S. dictatorship under NRA; that General Johnson, unable to control newspaper editorials, had used Radio and Cinema, more complaisant organs, toward that...