THE PRESIDENCY: Canard

In the last Congress many legislators criticized the New Deal privately and a few openly, but none flung coarser vituperation at the White House than Senator Thomas D. Schall of Minnesota. His favorite accusation was that the New Deal was trying to muzzle the Press. Last week the blind Senator, egged on by Tory publishers, produced a new and startling charge: The Administration not only planned to censor the Associated Press, United Press and Hearst news services, but to start its own official press service to supplant...

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