Word: censor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baron Beaverbrook, most powerful press tycoon of Fleet Street, arrived in Manhattan on the Bremen last week to face reporters eager to get at the bottom of why his Daily Express and other London papers have not printed the Mrs. Simpson story. "You are the censor!" cried a reporter. Replied Lord Beaverbrook...
Mysterious Pages Sirs: In your issue of Sept. 28, you publish a letter from Mrs. Charles H. Bassett of London, England, where she states among other things: "In our copy of this week's TIME (Aug. 31) p. 19 & 20 have been deleted by the British censor. To ensure that in future we get our TIME intact we are ordering our issue direct from your circulation office." I have for years subscribed to many foreign papers, including TIME, and never have any of them been censored or deleted. Also, it is quite obvious from Mrs. Bassett...
...justice to liberty-loving Britons you ought to point out that the "censoring" or, rather, the entire elimination of whole pages is done not by an official censor but by TIME'S own "Puritan" distributors, and is only applied to copies sold on the bookstands of the British Isles...
...death was, by order of King Richard III, frog-marched through the streets of London to be reviled by the populace and finally imprisoned for what was declared to be the crime of "committing adultery with His Late Majesty." The Lord Chamberlain, who acts as Britain's play censor, has no power to ban productions in such little theatres where entrance is supposed to be ''by subscription to members only...
...grade, Especially true is this of the "Advocate", for the opportunity of writing for a particular publication is excellent training for adapting one's interests to the confines of space and public approval. The range of interests is limited only by the sensitivity of Boston's famed and narrow censor...