Word: streibert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Accepted the resignation of ex-Radioman (Mutual) Theodore Streibert as head of the U.S. Information Agency, appointed in his stead Under Secretary of Labor Arthur Larson, 46, up-and-coming theorist of New Republicanism and one of the President's campaign speechwriters...
...head of the U.S. Information Agency: Theodore C. Streibert, 53, able former board chairman of the Mutual Broadcasting System, lately adviser to HighCommissioner James B. Conant in Germany. Streibert's newly created agency is to include all of the old U.S. Information Service (Voice of America, etc.), together with the information setups of the Mutual Security Agency and the Technical Cooperation Administration...
Uneasy over the uproar about television's slipping moral standards, two stations last week ran for shelter to the bosom of the Motion Picture Production Code. President Theodore Streibert of Manhattan's WOR-TV hailed the code as a guide to "what is acceptable and in good taste." In Philadelphia, Publisher Walter H. Annenberg. of the Inquirer urged the manager of his station WFIL-TV to pay particular attention to code provisions dealing with "the depiction of crimes against the law, the use of obscenity and vulgarity, and restrictions as to costumes and dances...