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...glow of self-importance. So let us still continue our method of developing geniuses where experience and environment build thoughts and ideas?which hardly can be created in a cold superchamber of the "intelligentsia," so-called. There will always be a varied group of humans?and to suppress the egotistical and so-called dictators is pleasant game for the masses or "rabble." Germany and its Aryan and non-Aryan idea is an excellent example of trying to place human beings on the 10¢ and $1 shelf...
...forbid you to take any pictures!" commanded President Roosevelt's No. 2 White House aide, "and nothing must be written about this." Cameramen meekly obeyed, but news hawks did not see why they should suppress a newsworthy account of New Dealers fraternizing socially with "the Power Trust." Publisher Carter began to bluster...
Finally Publisher Carter assumed a more conciliatory tone, took some newshawks downstairs for drinks. Afterwards he telephoned the news services asking them not to send out the story. Associated Press did suppress it. The others sent out abbreviated accounts by wire. Next morning not a word was printed in any Washington paper about what Sleuth Jurney and his party found on the eighth floor of the Shoreham Hotel. By afternoon, however, AP had had a change of heart, picked up the story from the version printed by the New York Post. At last Washington heard how Sergeant Jurney failed...
...many tourists and entitled How the Social Evil is Regulated in Japan, that 'ten percent of the female population of all ages' is engaged in prostitution. But it is exceedingly significant that, with a press censorship as strict as that in Japan and as ready to suppress publications which are undesirable, the little red brochure is allowed to be distributed and sold...
...proportions last week that the strictly nonradical Authors' League of America was moved to come to the defense of the harassed New Theatre League. Declared Vice President Elmer Davis (History of the New York Times, Friends of Mr. Sweeney) of the Authors' League: "The tactics employed to suppress presentation of Waiting for Lefty are familiar and timeworn. Technicalities of the fire laws, obsolete statutes from the old 'blue laws' period, red tape in connection with licenses -all of these are used to bar the play from theatres or to stop performances. But the real issue...