Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was undoubtedly truth in both charges. But neither Vinson, Denfeld nor any other Admiral should have been surprised. The Navy's rebels had gone too far, and their topmost man, Admiral Denfeld himself, had taken a stand which clearly disqualified him to work any longer with his civilian superiors and his opposite numbers in the Army and Air Force. The rebels had ruthlessly and violently attacked, not only the Air Force and its professional integrity but also the whole Joint Chiefs of Staff concept of strategy. They had plainly implied that they would remain insubordinate to the bitter...
EDITORIAL WRITERS SEE TRUTH AS GOAL...
...still succeed. It could powerfully stir the emotions of mil lions and leave behind it neuroses, disillusionment and bitterness ... On the other hand, it could move quietly across the land and leave in its wake lives trans formed by the power of God, illumined by sound knowledge of Christian truth, radiant in the experience of fulfillment in the Kingdom of Christ...
...stuck when the film's distributor, George I. Shafir of Manhattan, refused to contest it. In their annual report, the stubborn censors were still defending their decision: "Certainly the screen is no place for documentary subjects that are presented without truth and sincerity, and the sooner the board is enabled to cope with such abuses beyond legal .doubt, the better...
...outraged voice. In a letter to Governor Lane, Playwright Elmer Rice, chairman of its National Council on Freedom from Censorship, branded the board's proposal "flagrantly unconstitutional." Said Rice: "If the ... board is to have the power to ban pictures because the subjects are not presented with truth and sincerity, there will be very few Hollywood productions indeed which could ever be shown. [If] censorship on this ground should be limited to documentary subjects, then the attempted restrictions on free speech become all the more obvious ... If the board has power to censor for inaccuracies and hypocrisies, there...