Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus we observe the reduction ad absurdum of the premise that the view of any individual or any majority is ipso facto absolute. The best that can be said for a majority opinion is that it is a majority opinion under which the policy of the nation should be provisionally ordered. For always the dictatorial tendencies of a majority should be subject to the check of a wakeful minority aspiring to power...
...Lewis' miners; the chief reason was to prevent Lewis from becoming "dictator of this country," and they asked the public to help by writing Washington. Whatever Lewis' ambitions, there was little in the Southerners' citations to support their charge. Wrote Columnist Dorothy Thompson, after reading the ad: "There ought to be something like the SEC to protect ... the public against consciously fraudulent or misleading statements . . . that demand political action on the part of the public...
After 21 months of a battle royal between Hearst's Good Housekeeping, biggest ad-carrier among women's magazines, and the Federal Trade Commission, FTC last week cracked down. It ordered Good Housekeeping to mend its practice of issuing "Tested and Approved'' seals vouching for the worth of advertised products tested by Good Housekeeping Institute and Good Housekeeping Bureau...
Found. In Siler City, N. C., embarrassed Attorney L. P. Dixon inserted an ad in the local paper: "Found-one liquor still-complete with cap and worm on or near my land. Owner please identify and pay for this ad...
...well in the red, Selecciones helps to reduce the unwieldy large profits of its parent magazine. But in March 1942, Selecciones' ad rates, now based on a circulation of 100,000, will be boosted from $360 to $630 a page, and Publisher DeWitt Wallace thinks he may break even on his contribution to Pan-American cultural relations...