Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...journalists of both Left and Right. Using his wide decree powers, the Premier's Government published a law which: 1) prohibited defamation or slander promoting hatred "against any group of persons belonging to any particular race or religion"-i.e., against the Jews, a specialty of the Reich-subsidized press; 2) made it unlawful to receive from foreign countries funds for "antinational propaganda"; 3) provided that any funds received for publicity campaigns, directly or indirectly, must be reported in eight days...
Contending that the press decrees did not "in any respect alter the fundamental notion of liberty," the Daladier Government insisted that the legislation was necessary to "prevent certain campaigns of suspicious origin tending to weaken the morale of the nation...
...years ago, grabby Señor Foianini went along, became last year Minister of Mines and Petroleum in Germán Busch's Cabinet. First Busch acts were to cancel wartime censorship, announce his intention to hold elections, introduce civilians to his Cabinet. But the next year press censorship was made more rigorous, extremist agitation was outlawed. In November groups of more than three were forbidden to congregate on the streets of La Paz (pop. 142,547). When dormant political parties recently began to stir restlessly, President Busch enlarged the Senate from 16 to 24 members, called elections...
When radio tried to crash the sacrosanct U. S. press galleries eight years ago it was coldly informed that the galleries were open only to representatives of "daily newspapers or newspaper associations requiring telegraphic service." Last week, thanks to a tireless one-man campaign by MBS's 36-year-old Washington Commentator Fulton Lewis Jr., the gallery bars were let down for radio...
...Dodo") Farnsworth. In 1937 after 13 years in the newspaper business (for four years of which he once covered fishing as well as politics) he quit Hearst for radio, has since been bucking his old crowd to get a place for radio in the press galleries...