Word: publisher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everywhere people discussed politics openly and frankly. No censor was at work. But the character of the press had changed. Individuals could no longer publish newspapers. Only groups (political parties, unions, etc. had the right. At first the new press displayed a striking sameness in content, tameness in outlook. Recently polemical fur has begun to fly between Socialists and Communists...
Such talk moved the New York Times's tart Columnist Simeon Strunsky to remark: "Perhaps . . . Pravda will better understand what we mean by freedom of the press if we say it is a state of things, roughly speaking, in which Lenin [for five years, even with interruptions], could publish a Bolshevist newspaper...
...Meantime the British Government will proceed independently with the drafting of a treaty to be concluded between Great Britain and the projected self-governing Dominion of India. As an earnest of its good intentions, Britain will publish a draft of the treaty before India starts to write her constitution...
...Manhattan, Chappell Music Co. got set to publish C'est Fini as Symphony; song pluggers tried it out for name-band leaders. Husky-throated Marlene Dietrich recorded the French version for Decca. In translation, the French lyrics she sang were...
...Times, trying to damn the U.S. out of its own mouth, quoted first that old press baiter, Interior Secretary Harold Ickes: "When editors and publishers do not publish information or opinions which are extremely important for the interests of society as a whole, when editors distort events to serve special interests, and when they fabricate canards to blacken or eliminate unfavorable political candidates, then I the press deserves the severest criticism and condemnation...