Word: censor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet Politbureau or Red Big Ten had been assassinated (TIME, Dec. 10), Soviet firing squads last week mowed down 66 Russians, one a woman, who were not accused of having anything to do with Assassin Leonid Nicolaev or his crime. According to dispatches passed by the Soviet censor, "they died to express the Government's determination that Nicolaev's act should not be the model for others...
Having received 3,000 new books for the prison library, the warden of the Penitentiary at Joliet, Ill. appointed as "literary censor" Convict Nathan Leopold who, with Richard Loeb, murdered young Bobbie Franks in 1923. Censor Leopold will expurgate "objectionable ideas...
Hulking Ernest Hemingway was in Key West dividing his attention between literature and marlin when a two-word cable arrived from Madrid. Inscrutable to a Spanish censor, it read LUIS HOOSEGOWED...
...Fane's relations with her husband had remained as they were when she first arrived in Hongkong, hers would have been a loveless and ignoble marriage. Since it is nothing of the sort at the conclusion of The Painted Veil, the picture, despite the fact that Censor Joseph Breen gave it Certificate of Approval No. 395, can be considered an advertisement for adultery as a matrimonial cureall. In this respect it follows Somerset Maugham's shallow novel, from which it was adapted. In other respects, except that it lacks the rapid-fire beginning in which the two lovers...
Baton Rouge, La., Nov. 26--Senator Huey Long's attempt to censor the "Reveille," student newspaper at Louisiana State University, resulted tonight in resignation of the entire staff, except one member...