Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough to be frightening. In New York City a committee called Citizens For Victory (most prominent officers: Poet Stephen Vincent Benét, Fiscal Expert Harry Scherman, Editor Walter Millis) wrote an advertisement this week under the glaring banner: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THIS COUNTRY? The ad went over the same barren, dreary ground as the daily headlines: Our own young boys are dying bravely for us; so are Russians, British, Chinese; but in Washington the spectacle of pork-barrel politics is as unblushing as ever. The ad denounced the farm bloc as "those to whom V means...
...people were awake. They just did not know how to do anything about the mess. The ad seemed out of date the minute it was published. Throughout the U.S. there was no longer "habitual indifference to Governmental management." Governmental management-and mismanagement-was burning the people up. But what could they do? They had thrown a vaudeville dancer out of Civilian Defense; they had got themselves a one-man management of war production; they had kicked up a furor that killed Pensions-For-Congress...
Wanted. In England's New Statesman and Nation appeared a want ad: "People sharing with Siamese cat modernized 18th Century Devon house seek others for pacifist life...
...make this recording, NBC men brought four Commandomen to their Manhattan studios and recorded ad lib interviews on their experiences. Then NBC arranged for a speech by Commando Commander Lord Louis Mountbatten. The records were skillfully woven into a composite half-hour interview...
...argued that the way to improve radio's service to the public is not to weaken the great chains but to strengthen them by taking programs out of the hands of the advertising agencies. Writing with a sympathetic understanding of network frailties, Lawyer Smith pointed out that the ad agencies-not the networks-develop and control virtually all sponsored programs...