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...hold within it, the full purport...
...earful one night recently when they tuned in on little KWJJ ("The Voice From Broadway") for the nightly roundup of baseball scores. What they heard was an indignation meeting held in disregard of the U.S. Censor's caution against "man in the street" programs. Its purport: that Portland police are too bloody rough...
...Secrets Bill, which would make all existing censorship seem downright lax, would make it a criminal offense to "communicate, divulge or publish to any person, in whole or in part, copies or the contents, substance, purport, effect, or meaning of any file, instrument, letter, memorandum, book, pamphlet, paper, document, manuscript, map, picture, plan, record or other writing" declared secret or confidential by any department of the Government. It was a gag bill, with a touch of the garrote...
Last week, all dressed up in a white suit, Manuel Quezon stood up to address the students of the Philippines and nobody, not even himself, controlled him. He put aside his prepared manuscript, waved his arms and launched into a speech as impassioned as it was unwise. Its general purport was clear enough...
Increasingly popular in U. S. high schools in the last ten years have been social science texts which purport to give pupils a "realistic" view of the U. S. way of life. New Dealish in tone, they are critical of big business, cry out against unequal distribution of wealth and unequal opportunities in the U. S. Few years ago businessmen, alarmed at what sounded like undermining of the U. S. system of private enterprise, began to protest. They attacked particularly a series of 20 books written by mild-mannered, white-haired Professor Harold Ordway Rugg of Columbia University...