Word: restrictions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole, these short notes combine to make a singularly entertaining history of the literary tastes of the United States since 1900. They recall the prudery of the early 1900s, which "labored with a quiet stubbornness to restrict every character in magazine fiction to possessing, corporeally, just hands, feet, and a face." In 1915 they record that Sinclair Lowis, then reading for Doran Co., rejected "The Cream of the Jest", "because the general public simply cannot be induced to buy novels about unattractive and ignoble people." They comment in passing upon the era of the twenties, when "we writing persons, upon...
...accused of dealing with the Central Powers, wrote to his most intimate friend & adviser, Col. Edward Mandell House: "I am, I must admit, about at the end of my patience with Great Britain and the Allies. . . . I am seriously considering asking Congress to authorize me to prohibit loans and restrict exportations to the Allies. It is becoming clear to me that there lies latent in this policy the wish to prevent our merchants getting a foothold in markets which Great Britain has hitherto controlled and all but dominated...
...best ideals" of the culture of the United States, and what kind of personal behavior would best exemplify it? Is racial discrimination one of its essential characteristics? Is it to judge a man's character and worth by the accident of his parent's birthplace? Is it to restrict or regulate a person's opportunities by the history of his grandparents? The terms of the bequest imply all that. We doubt, however, whether these elements represent the ideals and culture of the United States as expressed by such Americans as Jefferson, Washington, Lincoln or Theodore Roosevelt. Certainly the Constitution...
...plea for academic freedom based on the folly of attempts to restrict the liberty of the faculty in the past concluded Morison's address, entitled "Three Centuries of Harvard." He spoke at a meeting commemorating the 299th anniversary of the University's founding and the 328th anniversary of John Harvard's birth...
Those individuals, who are trying to entangle amateur sport with the theories and policies of the Hitler regime, have a pitifully weak case. Why do they restrict their criticism to the Nazi regime when several other countries operating under undemocratic principles plan to send teams to Berlin...