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Even the mildest criticism of Nazi policies is usually balanced by a dig at the Allies, to safeguard Swedish neutrality...
...Charles W. Post, founder of General Foods Corp., was advertising his two products, Grape-Nuts and Postum, as "brain food" and safeguard against "coffee heart." In 1939 General Foods advertised its more than 80 products through 14 radio programs (five of them top-notchers, one, JellO. featuring most-popular Jack Benny, two local New York programs in Yiddish), sold most food in its history...
...arrest wholesale every member of the I.R.A., which has been outlawed for the past three-and-a-half years. Up to now the Eire Constitution has prevented anyone arrested merely on suspicion from being held more than 48 hours without evidence, but Minister Boland introduced bills sweeping away this safeguard to civil lib erties, and in effect making Eamon de Valera a dictator, with powers to have anyone arrested and held indefinitely on suspicion...
...caucus room of the Old House Office Building, there opened a Congressional investigation as suave, sophisticated, polite and cynical as a Somerset Maugham comedy. It was the beginning of the Smith Committee hearings of the Wagner Act-that most crucial piece of New Deal legislation, passed to safeguard labor's historic right to bargain collectively through unions of its own choosing...
...reform in the movies and such organizations as the League of Decency, the Hays office, the State boards of censorship. Censors in Virginia, she finds, are most concerned about sex; in New York with political corruption; in Kansas with drinking, nose thumbing. She admires the versatility with which censors safeguard U. S. morals. Sample: when the script for Zaza called for a female character to shout at an admirer, "Pig! Pig! Pig!" the vigilant Hays office ordered: "Delete two pigs...