Word: restrictive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Better to Judge. The committee recognized the special problem of dealing with Communists and other subversive groups. The report decried proposals, arising out of "near-hysteria," which would restrict a Communist's freedom to speak. The committee recommended instead that groups "which attempt to influence public opinion" be required to disclose all pertinent facts about themselves, as now required of business by the SEC. Said the report: "Our purpose ... is to enable the people better to judge the true motives of those who try to sway them...
Increasing tendencies on the part of newspapers and government to restrict the contents of news columns have resulted in the United States' own "iron curtain," columnist Thomas L. Stokes told the Law School Forum last night...
...preparation for life. Students will not be able to discharge their responsibilities to the community they live in on theory alone. Settlement House work is one way to develop a genuine social consciousness through actual contact with the underprivileged children and round out an education that otherwise tends to restrict itself to the four corners of a book...
...loan cannot be had, or fails to do the trick, the Government may have to restrict imports from...
Curtain Up. In Leningrad, the Russian fur trust held its first public postwar auction. The Russians, who frown on large foreign embassy staffs and restrict the number of U.S. newsmen to eight, consider fur traders birds of a different capitalistic feather. Among about 100 foreign fur brokers invited were 40 Americans. The guests bought $7,000,000 worth of sables, ermine and muskrat and bid up Siberian Bargusinsky sable to a postwar high of $550 a skin...