Word: censor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...illimitable swaggerer and beggar, man of the world and man in the street will emerge and command a modern interpretation. It is rumored that the ghost of old Plautus himself, lured from his pleasant Roman Hell by the familiar setting, will chuckle in the wings to frighten the censor...
...little learning has King Alexander of Jugoslavia as to what the rest of the world thinks of assassins. Shrewd, His Majesty ordered news of the Princip memorial suppressed, and when it leaked out commanded the Foreign Office to dismiss the Chief Censor. Frightened, stupid underlings at the Bureau of Censorship freely passed despatches telling how Dictator-King Alexander had almost succeeded in keeping the world ignorant that his people have glorified a deed doubly foul?for Assassin Princip slew not only the Heir of Austria but also His Royal Highness' morganatic wife, Sophie Countess Chotek, mother of two sons...
...story of the Dictator's fall for his U. S. employers, the United Press. They put the news on their wires six hours ahead of competitors, kept on firing out detail after detail through an anxious day, while other news services periodically reported the official denials of the Spanish censor...
...confidence" of Captains General. Attempts at explanation by the dizzy Dictator are royally ignored. The Dictator leaves the Palace with his fate already sealed?unless he should decide to defy the King. Despatches covering all this are filed by Scooper de Gandt and pass the Spanish censor who will later deny their truth. Fearing that they will not pass, the Scooper dashes to a telephone, talks the scoop to Paris for relay to New York...
Cardinal Richelieu founded the French academy of 40 "Immortals." Benito Mussolini went Richelieu 25 better by found-ng the Italian academy of 65 "Immortals." That Mussolini's "Immortals" have turned out to be a luckless lot was sardonic news that leaked past Fascismo's censor last week...