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Miss Webster, whose company was among the first to employ Negroes together with whites in major roles, also cautioned against using members of minorities in parts artificially in conflict with the author's conception of the role. She also warned that attempts to suppress productions which showed individual members of minorities in an unfavorable light can be carried to an extreme which could make all theatre ridiculous...
...chief-of-correspondents for the Boston Globe says this: "I once spoke before several college publicity officers and I criticized several things about them. I told them democracy was at work when a newspaper covers the news," and the colleges shouldn't try to suppress it, he said. He had good words for the Publicity Bureau at Smith College. "There was a big hunt for a missing Smith girl who was supposed to have eloped and been killed. The publicity office at Smith did everything they could to help me get a picture of the girl. The head...
...Devout Sex. Far from being an "enthusiast" himself, Msgr. Knox is sometimes unable to suppress a faint shudder at the uncouth excesses with which his subject compels him to deal. But for the most part he treats his material with the warm antiquarian relish of a jurist whose hobby is delving into the idiosyncrasies of safecrackers...
...Sasser was still plowing ahead with his investigation. He had arrested ten more Klansmen (one of them, a member of the state constabulary, was promptly fired) and he swore he was going to pinch a hundred more. The state governments of North and South Carolina took steps to suppress Klan parades, and many predicted that the Klan, after its cowardly night's work, was through in both states for good...
...occupational disease of silicosis. Many others suffer from gas poisoning caused by the badly ventilated mines; doctors send them back to work if they are not more than "50% disabled." The accident rate is high. News of major mining disasters continues to seep out, despite police measures to suppress...