Word: publishers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press too, but does not "want to impose our Soviet form of freedom of the press upon the other countries of the world." Therefore Cooper should not try to impose his brand either. Besides, "it is one thing to recognize by law the right of citizens to publish newspapers and magazines that serve their interests, and quite a different thing to guarantee the people the use of their right. ... In the Soviet Union only, where all power is in the hands of the toilers, [does] the press serve the interests of the masses...
...Signed another bill making it a crime to publish anonymous political statements about any candidate for Federal office...
Michael O'Donovan, Cork-born in 1903, got off the mark so fast that he tried to publish his "collected works" at the age of twelve. Later, having adopted the pseudonym of Frank O'Connor, he published several novels and plays, some verse, a biography of Irish Revolutionary Michael Collins, and a host of short stories that critics have called the best in Ireland since James Joyce's Dubliners. "O'Connor," said the late great William Butler Yeats, "is doing for Ireland what Chekov did for Russia...
...newspaper Himno National (National Anthem). Arrested and imprisoned, Aguirre Cámara won his liberty by promising not to attack the Government without telling the police beforehand. Last month, astonished Police Chief Velazco got Aguirre Cámara's warning. Soon, wrote the cheeky ex-deputy, he would publish a scathing pamphlet. He would print it in Argentina. He would remain in the country "until I am convinced that the people do not want to be saved...
...Pacific Coast, the word of Joseph Henry Jackson* is literary law. Eastern publishers quote his reviews, publish almost any manuscript he recommends. This year his influence has swept over the Sierras with even more spectacular results than usual. Two current bestsellers are books that he plugged before publication. Joseph Pennell's turgid History of Rome Hanks (to date: 93,000 copies), and Kathleen Winsor's Forever Amber† (400,000 copies...