Word: relationships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relationship between the U.S. press and radio rated a curt British glance last week. In the BBC Quarterly, BBC Publicity Director Kenneth Adam observed smugly that "the 25-year relationship between broadcasting and the press in Great Britain has not been complicated, as it has in the U.S., by competition for the attention of the advertisers." Despite this, he was forced to admit that, even in Britain, press-radio relations were not exactly ticketyboo. There is, he conceded, "a rivalry over the supply of news to the public...
...least discomfort and danger. So says Harvard's Physiologist Ross Armstrong McFarland. For ten years Dr. McFarland, a stubborn gadfly to the U.S. aviation industry, has scientifically studied the effect of plane design and operation on man, "perhaps the most unstable unit in the entire man-machine relationship." He has also flown a good many miles himself...
...concerns the twisted relationship of two sisters, Rose and Ella Venn. The hatred between them, writes Author Cary, "had a very long history, almost as long as their devotion." Rose, "an obstinate old spinster, thin and black as a kitchen poker," has all the self-righteous cruelty of a woman whose happiness has been given up for others...
Freedom at a Price. If the Church and Parliament cannot agree on such a compromise, wrote the Archbishop, "then Disestablishment and Disendowment will be unavoidable." Disestablishment would mean the end of the formal relationship of Church & State which began when Henry VIII repudiated papal authority, and the Convocation of 1534 resolved that the Pope had no more divine jurisdiction in England than "any other foreign bishop...
...relationship had never been social. "Strange as it may seem, the President had never taken me into the bosom of his family, even though everyone agreed I was more responsible than any other single man for his being in the White House. Never was I invited to spend the night in the historic mansion. Only twice did I make a cruise on the Presidential yacht. . . . Never was I asked to join intimate White House gatherings. . . . Mrs. Roosevelt once said: 'Franklin finds it hard to relax with people that aren't his social equals.' I took this remark...