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Ever since the New Deal began, Republicans have grown more & more convinced that for all practical purposes the Radio was a Democratic monopoly, that censorship was being enforced on anti-Administration criticism. Last week Publisher Ogden Mills Reid of the New York Herald Tribune supplied his fellow G. O. Partisans with a bill of particulars on which they could argue their conviction during the coming campaign...
Trouble started last May when Mr. Reid's Herald Tribune editorialized as follows...
...radio, controlled by the Administration through its licensing power, was made the spokesman of the New Deal and largely restricted to Government propaganda." Stung by this direct shot, the Federal Radio Commission promptly adopted a resolution "requesting" Publisher Reid to present "any facts or other material" in support of Herald Tribune's editorial. As a matter of "principle," Publisher Reid respectfully refused to render the commission "an account concerning our editorial comment," tartly calling attention to the First Amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing free press and free speech. By way of answer, however, the Herald Tribune last week published...
Recommendations, This week the Federal Radio Commission is absorbed into the new Federal Communications Commission whose seven members (four Democrats, three Republicans) the President is about to appoint. Pleading for "editorial discretion" among the new appointees, Pundit Walter Lippmann. who works for Mr. Reid's Herald Tribune but does not always agree with him or it, earnestly recommended to the President : "The best commissioners would be men of the kind qualified to be head of a popular university or editor of an independent newspaper. Such men can be found. But they are not likely to be found among...
...Century English school of painting which always commands good auction prices was this year's unquestioned leader. Top artist was Raeburn with John Lamont of Lamont which went from one anonymous collector to another for $29,000. Others of the school: a small full-length Gainsborough from Mrs. Reid's collection, $5.100; a Lawrence from the late Henry Seligman's collection, $19,000; a Hoppner, $12.500; Isabella, Lady Molyneux by Gainsborough, $10,000; a Romney, $16,000. Millet's The Knitting Lesson, once owned by the late Levi Zeigler Leiter, was sold to Manhattan...