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...cooperation." In plain talk, this means the broadcasters will have to follow the line laid down by the State Department. To broadcasters who are already used to working hand & glove with the State Department, this proviso was just part of the game, but the sensitive press began to spit and fume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: FCC Rules the Waves | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Engaged. Leo B. Gorcey, 20, granite-faced "Dead End Kid" (Spit); and Katherine Mavis, 17, drama student; in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...Under the English health insurance system, says one booklet, "the . . . patient will not hesitate to come along into the waiting-room collarless and even coatless, nor does it add to the comfort of other patients when one is compelled to put up a large notice [asking] . . . patients . . . not to spit on the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Manhattan Ballot | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...spit on you and your kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 13, 1939 | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...Early audience behavior can be gauged from an old program note respectfully requesting spectators "not to spit on the stove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: 300 Years: 100 Pages | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

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