Word: byronism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President appointed the Associated Press's level-headed Executive News Editor, Byron Price, as Director of Censorship...
...Julius Caesar, Lord Byron, Columbus, Socrates, Lincoln, Mussolini, P. T. Barnum, Michelangelo, Clark Gable, et al. *To date, Snow White (cost: $1,300,000) has grossed a healthy $7,157,000; Pinocchio is $300,000 shy of its $2,500,000 investment; The Reluctant Dragon has earned a little more than a third of its $686,000 production cost; Fantasia, scheduled for general release soon, is within $500,000 of paying for itself...
...censor, appointed by Presidential executive order: 50-year-old Hoosier-born Byron Price, competent executive news editor of Associated Press. Because the press had long expected a New Deal zealot as censor, its first reaction to the Price appointment was one of relief...
...much censorship the public will stand for still remains to be seen. As for the censor himself, Byron Price indicates he would be reasonable and as former chief of one of the world's biggest staffs of foreign correspondents he ought to have considerable understanding of the curse of strict and inept censorship...
...BYRON L. LEVY...