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Cain, who is a registered Democrat and who organized Democrats in 1944 to vote for Dowey, has actually proposed a completely capitalistic set-up. The Authors' Authority is not designed to control writing in America, nor is it even meant to engineer strikes and financial negotiations. The business of getting better pay and working conditions for the writer will remain in the hands of the various guilds which function now. The Authority is interested solely in the protection of authors' rights and property...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 10/17/1946 | See Source »

Although the House system of piling trays would be inconvenient owing to the Union's physical set-up and a rearrangement of lines might cause temporary complications, neither system is so difficult as to be impractical. One of them should be adopted quickly so that piles of garbage cease to go up and Freshman appetites down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Appetizer | 10/15/1946 | See Source »

Taking the nominating committee named Thursday evening by the Council as a starting point, the revisionists protested the election set-up "because the Council has arbitrarily appointed a nominating committee which will equally arbitrarily place names on the ballot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Undemocratic' Nominations Plan Blasted by Revisionists | 9/28/1946 | See Source »

...wasn't all one-sided, however, for the Crimson goals, though in the main not the result of obviously set-up plays, were not flukes by any means. Bram Arnold and John Forte both beat the Dartmouth net-minders twice with nice shots, and Bill Ayres accounted for the other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unsteady Crimson Bows to Favored Dartmouth Skaters | 2/19/1946 | See Source »

...would think this set-up would be pretty error-tight-but it isn't quite, and mistakes do happen. That's where the second book comes in. It's called "The Black Book," and it records all the errors which have crept into TIME. When you write us about them, we list them in the book and try to print your letter and the correction in "Letters." But some are so hard to spot that none of you ever call us on them. We list these anyway-for our own disciplining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 10, 1945 | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

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