Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...congratulated on your recent coverage of the problems of academic freedom. The two editorials on the Report of the Educational Policies Commission come as a fitting climax to your job of documenting the increasing hysterls on this subject...
...week starting Friday, June I 7. Times are E.D.T., subject to change...
Security. Last January Squeaky Burwell heard that CAB was ready to wash him out. It vetoed his request for permanent travel routes. But all CAB decisions on overseas certificates are subject to a White House O.K. Burwell turned himself into a one-man lobby in Washington. A loyal Democrat who had raised money for Harry Truman in the 1948 campaign, he buttonholed 24 Senators, nine Representatives and 51 Administration officials. Then he had a chat with Harry Truman, told him: "If a man's in a hurry he takes an ordinary airline; if he wants to kill two weeks...
...have no quarrel; they are alike as three blackjacks. But war has turned out to be the simplest way of convincing the masses that their countries and their lives are in a state of emergency, which can only be met if all thought, as well as all government, is subject to absolute dictatorship. Hence the three great slogans that Oceania's wretched citizens read and hear every hour of their lives...
...Behind the Curtain, the faults of the Gunther system are more noticeable than the virtues. Written after a six-month trip through Eastern Europe, Behind the Curtain says little of. importance about its fascinating subject that newspaper and magazine readers are not likely to know. It has less insight into national behavior and outlook than the Inside books, and few ideas not readily found in the U.S. left-of-center press...