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...charge of unfair competition for advertising he reminded the Press that $31,000,000 was spent to advertise radio products in newspapers in 1930. "Suppose," said he, "that radio advertising should drop off, largely through the efforts of the Press to suppress radio programs and other radio news. What then? . . . No sponsors, no money for broadcasting ... no radio industry and no income to the Press...
...ghost with the bearing of Metternich walks in Germany again. An emergency decree empowers local authorities to stop gatherings which they regard likely to disturb public order, to suppress papers which attack religious organizations, slander public figures, or incite to violence, and to dissolve any societies which fail to keep the peace...
...Soviet statecraft this same ability of the Slav to act "without limit" has resulted in such daring extremes of policy as the attempt to wipe out the whole kulak or "rich peasant" class, complete the Five Year Plan in four years, and suppress all political parties except one, the Communist Party...
...very potent cocktail is the factor which provokes most of the interest one can give to "Reaching for the Moon" at Loew's State. Even in civilian clothes Douglas Fairbanks can not suppress his desire to leap through windows and display his callisthenic ability. Bebe Daniels is the attractive cause of his agitation...
...effort to explain the Menemen executions last week, Turkish officials an nounced that the Republic was "completely neutral" in the matter of religion, made no attempt to interfere with mosque services or missionary schools. It was, on the other hand, determined to suppress the dervishes because they were secret societies determined to bring Turkey back to the social forms of six or seven centuries...