Word: censor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...between two nations, each going to battle under a self-defense plea. Senator Borah admitted that the treaty in no way prevented such a possibility. "A nation must answer to the tribunal of public opinion as to her right to go to war," said he. "The only censor of her action is the power of public opinion...
...vicinity of Galapagos and thence relay the Maryland's rebounding messages to the big naval radio station at Balboa.* Notwithstanding this assistance, the Maryland found Andean ether conditions so bad that no messages could be sent for six hours one day. George Barr Baker, the chief Hoover censor and publicist, explained matters to the world's press when he could. The broadcast of Goodwill dropped from 16,000 words per day to about...
Last week Madrid's dramatic censor forbade production of a new. play by Spain's leading dramatist, Jacinto Benavente, in which were to have appeared a fictional Prime Minister, King, Queen and invalid Crown Prince. The stage King and Queen were to have quarreled with their Prime Minister over whether religious or medical agencies should be invoked to cure the Crown Prince...
Therefore the Madrid censor was unquestionably justified in quashing Jacinto Benavente's play and issuing the following communique: "The dramatist has been authorized to issue his work only in a revised book form. It is believed that the public, when it knows the work, will realize it would be dangerous to the people's spiritual tranquillity and peace of mind to allow it to be performed...
Observers considered the sequestration a "plant," designed to strengthen the Censor's position when he moves to sequester other newspapers. The sensational story, it was explained, was inserted in Il Popolo by irresponsible underlings "late one night, after the editor had gone home...