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...rival that one for the violence of its satire, defamation, and downright libel. There were statutes forbidding the publication of criticism of the minister's policy, but the speed laws of today could scarcely be less effective for their purpose than were they for theirs. Since they could not suppress it, ministers were obliged to enter the fight. Political scribbling, though loudly despised as a prostituted trade, became almost respectable when great men set up their own journals to solicit the popular voice. Readers in the coffee-houses in 1723 may well have marveled to find Bishop Hoadly...
...even considering all these reasons, it is impossible to suppress the thought that there is something in this phenomenon that transcends purely American affairs that Liberty and the Peace of the World are now to be defended by a voice powerful above all others...
...King and Mrs. Simpson, or the facts of their friendship and her divorce. This had been done only by a mimeographed London weekly tipsheet, The Week, of negligible circulation. Pontificated Pundit Lippmann: "The reticence of the British press cannot be put down to an effort of the King to suppress knowledge of his regard for Mrs. Simpson. The true explanation is that the British press is forbidden by a recently enacted law to make a public spectacle out of any divorce case. It may print only the bare facts of the legal proceedings...
...transcribed" programs on national networks. They announced that "Senator Vandenberg's Fireside Mystery Chat" had therefore been cancelled. Listeners heard the announcement of cancellation but their reception of the "Mystery Chat" continued. In their frenzy Columbia's executives had decided that it might be less expedient to suppress the broadcast than to run it. Finally Columbia's Manhattan office made up its independent mind, cut off the program for good from 22 stations in the East and South. The gathering in the Tropical Room and listeners to the other 44 Columbia stations heard the whole half-hour...
...Moscow radio communication had just been opened and the Central Executive Committee of the Spanish Communist Party flashed urgent appeals to the Dictator. Stalin's whereabouts have been secret since he was reported to have left Moscow "on vacation" with his entourage in an armored train, reputedly to suppress insurgence in his native Georgia. Last week, wherever Stalin was, the Spanish Communists soon got a radio reply signed by Stalin as Secretary General of the Russian Communist Party telling them that "The toilers of the Soviet Union are only carrying out a duty in rendering all the assistance...