Word: said
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week the American Civil Liberties Union raised an outraged voice. In a letter to Governor Lane, Playwright Elmer Rice, chairman of its National Council on Freedom from Censorship, branded the board's proposal "flagrantly unconstitutional." Said Rice: "If the ... board is to have the power to ban pictures because the subjects are not presented with truth and sincerity, there will be very few Hollywood productions indeed which could ever be shown. [If] censorship on this ground should be limited to documentary subjects, then the attempted restrictions on free speech become all the more obvious ... If the board...
...Kenney: "I told him that I was running the Air Force because I was the most competent airman in the Pacific and that, if that statement was not true, I recommended that he find somebody that was more competent. . . When Sutherland seemed to be getting a little antagonistic, I said, 'Let's go in the next room, see General MacArthur . . .' Sutherland immediately calmed down and rescinded the orders that I had objected...
When Lillian Smith was a little girl in the deep South, a new Negro family moved to town. With the family came Janie, its adopted white-skinned child. Janie disturbed white folks. "They must have kidnaped her," said one of the ladies in Mrs. Smith's club...
Speaking about the small number of dormitory lounges, Dean Robert W. Kenny said that they were "unsatisfactory because students used the lounges as an intermediate station to get girls into their rooms...
This sort of attack wasn't practical before Saturday but as Valpey said after the game: "You have to pound to win your bread-and-butter games." That's why the spectators weren't treated to a more diversified Harvard offense--the Crimson threw only 11 passes...