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...ears of the public, neither is right. But the government completed an agreement with BMI last Monday whereby BMI said they would be good and "refrain from practices condemned as undesirable by the government." So ASCAP is liable to be ushered into court on March 5 for "unlawful conspiracy in keeping music off the radio," and "exploiting composers by preventing them from selling their music except on terms of a self-perpetuating board of directors." But then, ASCAP has visited the Supreme Court four times before, and has won every time. They're getting used to it. So hold...
That has lately become the constant refrain of many another of this country's progressives. From Herbert Agar on alphabetically down the list, they have proclaimed-with Harvard's most distinguished son-that the Fight for Freedom "must and will" be fought simultaneously on two fronts: abroad against soul-cramping fascism, at home against poverty and reaction. This war, they urge, is not a barrier against social progress, but a path to it. Paraphrasing Herbert Croly, they hail the Promise of American Strife...
...none that was notably energetic, imaginative, outspoken. As time went by and little was heard from Coordinator Rockefeller, it looked as if his attempt might have gone the way of all others. Critics complained that Mr. Rockefeller had apparently done nothing except suggest to movie producers that they refrain from showing gigolos as Argentines. But last week Coordinator Rockefeller issued a preliminary report that showed he had done a good deal more. Based on a three-man survey, in 18 countries, the report charged...
...priest to be shot down in Spain than to see his faith being dragged into the dirt in Germany." The Gestapo promptly arrested him. He was given a suspended sentence by the court, rearrested by the Gestapo. Like Niemoller he has refused release offered him on condition that he refrain from preaching...
...spontaneous. U. S. Intelligencers on the spot positively identified three of the leading Mexico City German agents circulating in the crowd. Almazán himself, who had just flown to Mexico City and renounced his claims to the Presidency, said later: "I have recommended to my friends that they refrain from acts of violence. My sincere friends have adhered to this recommendation...