Word: byronism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this became known to blue-eyed, baby-faced Byron Hirst, 31, the new county attorney. He also heard that the mayor was in on the take, and warned him: "I'm not interested in being a conquering hero around here, but everybody is beginning to think you're a crook." Finally Hirst set a trap. He got the buxom Negro madam of the "Black and Tan Club" to insist on paying off to the mayor and police chief in person. Hirst's men watched through a peephole, recorded the transaction on a dictograph. Last week Attorney Hirst...
...week's end, fair-minded Censor Byron Price seconded Clyde Reed. Said he: "It is more important to me than to any Senate committee to find out who was faithless enough to violate these confidences...
...Star-Times broke a double-streamer expose of faulty ammunition manufacture at the Government's St. Louis Ordnance Plant (world's biggest for small-arms ammunition, operated by United States Cartridge Co.). The Star-Times had nailed down its charges with employes' affidavits, had Byron Price's go-ahead to print...
...said Byron Price, all this interference with the news must stop. "The Office of Censorship . . ." said he, "is the only Government agency authorized by the President to request that certain news must not be published or broadcast...
...scope of censorship was being reduced. Byron Price added that he hoped the whole business would be stopped the minute the last shot was fired. But what pleased newsmen most was that the workmanlike Office of Censorship had taken public cognizance of the perverted censorship that had often given the U.S. news mangled, incomplete or too late...