Word: censor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colonial-"Earl Carroll's Vanities" almost unscathed by the censor...
...loans for diplomatic inspection began in 1922. Its pur pose then was to thumbscrew European nations into funding their War debts to the U. S. by denying them fresh credits until they had done so. When all funding was completed, the State Department continued to act as a fiscal censor with the idea of bridging the abyss between Big Business and U. S. foreign policy. While it contended that it did not pass on the security or merits of foreign loans, its method of reporting "no objection" diplomatically to them was often construed by bond salesmen as left-handed approval...
Last week all but two members of the present Italian Cabinet read in the papers that their period of uninterrupted fecund activity is about over, prepared to write and receive the usual letters. According to "unofficial" announcements in the Italian press (which were passed by the official censor) II Duce plans to reorganize his Cabinet early next month, dropping everyone except "The Twins...
...useful person to shrewd publishers is a book-censor. Sure as death & taxes, a guilty volume will be publicized, will sell widely thereafter, openly or 'legged. Such success would be repugnant to Publishers Farrar & Rinehart, who by purchasing Cosmopolitan Book Corp. last month jumped into the first rank of their trade (TIME, Oct. 5). Under their imprint appears little bawdry. Nevertheless, upon one of their books last fortnight was visited censorship. Last week the book began to sell rapidly. Entitled Peggy and Peter: What They Did Today ($2.50), it is a picture book for children, representing the activities...
...Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. W. & W. is now in serious financial difficulties. Boston's forces of righteousness are at present headed by slim, white-haired, horn-spectacled John Michael Casey, chief of the city's Licensing Di vision. For 27 years City Censor Casey, who is on record as having said, "Don't you know that Eugene O'Neill never wrote on a decent theme in his life?", has passed on every theatrical offering of the Boston stage. He also licenses peddlers and news boys...