Word: venalities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press is corrupted by its politicians. The country was France. The editor was Pierre Lazareff of Paris-Soir. His Deadline (Random House; $3) was a telling documentation of the thesis that "France was undermined and betrayed from within" because "the French people were systematically misled by a venal and treasonous press...
...magazines, including a Mickey Mouse weekly with a circulation of over 400,000; Prèsse-Publicité, sort of a French combination of Editor & Publisher and Printer's Ink. Reason for these successes, says Winkler, was his adoption of U.S. editorial and advertising techniques rather than the venal methods of the kept French press...
...Manhattan's 46th Street into a series of low-grade dates in Pennsylvania in the early '20s, winds up with a topflight, ill-paid hot outfit in Chicago. His pianist brother Frank sticks to the seaboard; his greater talent and his tameness betray him into the venal successes of the "swing" rage. Between the two of them they cover most of the salient features of jazz and Jazz-living among white musicians. There is some sore stuff on that corrupt necessity, the musician's union, and an interesting passage about marijuana. Send Me Down...
...more than half of Europe the Press has been destroyed; in the other half it is mostly venal or emasculated. Here in America journalism is free-conomically free to engage all the talent in the world, free to show the truth," Mr. Luce stated...