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Word: censor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bachelor Mother (RKO Radio), despite a title calculated to arouse the curiosity of censor boards, is as wholesome and comic a twitting as bastardy has ever received. Although Polly Parrish (Ginger Rogers) is not the mother of the seven-months-old baby she brings to a foundling home, no one will believe her, because the infant howls when taken from her arms. Her predicament is complicated when her ex-boss's scapegrace son (David Niven), solicitous for the baby's welfare, gives her back her old job and a raise. Polly and her pals proceed in persistent misunderstandings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 10, 1939 | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...time he was advising Colonel Robin, who was also President Wilson's unofficial representative to the Kremlin. Alex Gumberg was advising Lenin on policy toward the U. S. In the revolutionary confusion he also found himself acting as press censor, an unofficial job which evolved from the fact that he was hanging around the Kremlin and could speak English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Confidential Adviser | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Said the New York Times: "If our international broadcast programs are to be censored so that they shall not offend this or that foreign government, it is only a step to the argument that it is at least as desirable to censor our domestic programs so that they shall not offend our own Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: FCC Rules the Waves | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Despite these journalistic fidgets, broadcasters understood that radio, by its very nature, must exist under a tacit censorship, for so long as air-waves are limited, some agency must allocate them, and the power to allocate is the power to censor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: FCC Rules the Waves | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Mowrer, Rome correspondent of the Chicago Daily News, son of its editor, Paul Scott Mowrer, nephew of its Paris correspondent, Edgar Ansel Mowrer; and Rosamund Cole, of the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune; in Rome, 20 minutes before the bridegroom had to leave Italy because the censor did not like his dispatches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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