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Elmer Davis

American Journalist

Born: Jan 13, 1890

Died: May 18, 1958

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This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. Elmer Davis

Home Will Free Long Only Remain Brave Land

We can't let censorship take over. Elmer Davis

Censorship Take Over

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun. Elmer Davis

Own Field Every Everybody Sun One Of The Things Wrong His Subject America Expected Authority Done Anything Who Things

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error. Elmer Davis

Tammany Hall and slavery usually found 'The Herald' on their side. Elmer Davis

Side Hall Found Slavery

The chief characteristic of 'The Tribune' under Greeley was an aggressive and even ostentatious purity. 'Immoral and degrading police reports,' and any notices of the existence of the theater, whether in news or advertising, were at first scrupulously excluded. Elmer Davis

It is a curious foible of a certain type of mind that it is unable to imagine a newspaper editor as one who may, on some public questions, honestly have the same view as that held by other persons. Elmer Davis

Mind Honestly Other Type Unable Some Editor Questions Curious Same May Public Newspaper Persons Held Certain View Who Imagine

New York was growing so fast that the extraordinary prosperity which attended 'The Times' almost from the outset brought no real injury to any of its important rivals; for years thereafter, they all grew and prospered together. Elmer Davis

Freedom of ideas and communications is one of the things we are fighting for, and our enemies are fighting against. Elmer Davis

Freedom Enemies Fighting Our One Of The Things Ideas Against Communications Things

There is an increasing demand that the president and Secretary Hull get rid of the unteachable group in the State Department of men who have not learned, after ten years of experience, that appeasement has never worked anywhere, at any time. Elmer Davis

Time Experience Men Group Increasing President State State Department Secretary Ten Ten Years Never Demand Learned Years Get Department Any Hull After Anywhere Worked Rid Who Appeasement

You may not like Mr. Roosevelt, but if he loss the war, we all lose it with him. Elmer Davis

War You Lose He Like Him Loss May Roosevelt

The American public has a right to know what's going on. Elmer Davis

Know American Going Public American Public Right

This is a people's war, and to win it, the people should know as much about it as they can. Elmer Davis

War People Win About Know Much Should

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