Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America entered subscriptions for all its members. Editorialized the C. I. 0. News: "Powerful chains of daily papers show that the business world has learned the lesson of combination. But labor has here tofore failed to apply its slogan, 'in union there is strength,' to its press. . . . A most promising start has now been made. . . . The possibilities are unlimited for building a national press to offset the great trustified propaganda machine which the employing interests have established for the manufacture of public opinion...
...SCHOOLS AND CITY GOVERNMENT. University of Chicago Press...
Last week in London took place what British Roman Catholics and some zealous Nonconformists called "a vast World Congress of the Godless"-an international meeting of the World Union of Freethinkers. Founded in 1880, the Union is a coalition of ethical societies, the National Secular Society, the Rationalist Press Association. Freethinker doctrine defines a Freethinker not as godless but as "one who rejects unverifiable authority in matters of religious opinion, accepts reason as the ultimate test and regards it as the right and duty of every individual to think things out for himself. Many Freethinkers are deists; many...
...Power output rose to a new 1938 high, General Motors recalled 24,000 men to its Flint plants, and department-store sales all over the nation were off only 3% from the same week a year ago as compared to 14% fortnight ago. Summarizing such statistics in his weekly press conference, Secretary of Commerce Roper, more sanguine than most industrialists, concluded that they marked a steady continuance of the "processes of recovery...
Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett, who last month declared that "no American could refuse the nomination" when British Press Tycoon Lord Beaverbrook boomed him for the Presidency (TIME, Aug. 22), announced that he could not & would not accept the Republican nomination for Governor or U. S. Senator from New York...