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...liquor aboard, made the lives of Negro stewards miserable; got off the dirty-joke ship "news" paper which must have startled Russia's silent correspondent A. M. Khoklov, a captain in the Soviet navy. Baldwin's recommendation: a permanent accreditation committee of newsmen, to weed out the unfit...
...spot news ; it hadn't for 20 years ; it might not for 20 years more if the God he strove so hard to serve spared Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. For Salazar distrusted news. He suppressed and distorted it for the good of the Portuguese who, he believed, were unfit for facts. After 20 years of Salazar, the dean of Europe's dictators, Portugal was a melancholy land of impoverished, confused and frightened people. Even Salazar, that model of rectitude, showed signs of succumbing to a law of politics discovered by Lord Acton: "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power...
...just to keep the anti-Sassenach franchise, the Irish Government in the same week banned as unfit for Eireannachs to read a book called The Threshold of Marriage. The book was published by the Church of England...
During 38 years in Mississippi politics Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo has waded through sloughs of scandal which would have sucked down a dozen ordinary politicians. In 1910, as a drink-cadging state legislator, he heard the State Senate pronounce him "unfit to sit with upright men." He was jailed in 1923 for refusing to testify in a seduction suit against his political sidekick, Governor Lee M. Russell. He divorced his wife; she accused him of cruelty and a succession of infidelities, publicly begged Mississippi's women to vote against...
...look at Marysville. Less than five miles from here there are 1,500 Negroes living in homes most of which are unfit for human habitation. . . . They live that way because they are forced to. We refuse to give them jobs in Marysville. Our city has eight major industries all of which refuse to employ Negroes. If we are really serious about this business of building a world of peace and establishing the Kingdom of God on earth, we had better begin right here in Marysville by making it possible for these people to secure jobs...