Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which he has made such a mess (TIME, Sept. 18). To take over the Ministry of Information the Prime Minister appointed Sir John Reith, "The Man Who Made The British Broad casting Corp." and whose deep voice the world heard introducing the abdication broadcast of Edward VIII. A strict moralist, nonsmoker, teetotaler and a man famed for his dislike of newspapers and publicity of all sorts, Sir John will now have supreme charge of censoring the British press and of getting publicity for the British cause...
Last week Dick Maney was living a pressagent's dream: he was handling six shows at once* four more than any other press agent, and all that the Theatrical Managers, Agents & Treasurers Union allows. His factory was going full blast under strict union rules: he had hired an assistant as soon as he handled two shows; a second assistant as soon as he handled four; a third when he handled six. His helpers were getting a total of $275 a week; he, a minimum of $625 and very likely about...
Such is the general reaction. Liberals are rightly indignant that the Union should have so knuckled under to its self-seeking, intellectually arid minority. By refusing on grounds of "strict neutrality" to censure Russian aggression, an organization which was not afraid to support a boycott of Japan and which gave its approval to strong condemnations of German and Italian aggression, has now acquiesced in Hitlerism when practiced by the Kremlin. Under such circumstances, the only self-respecting action for the Harvard chapter, which fought the Communist dictation of policy, would appear to be resignation. There may, however, be an alternative...