Word: censor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Meeting in Manhattan with New York's Censor Hugh Flick, censors representing six states discussed the Supreme Court ruling, concluded with the "determination to continue to bar objectionable films in terms of our respective state laws' The Supreme Court, they argued, did not dispute "the constitutional rights of the states to exercise preregulation of motion pictures...
...library books that she thought should be "branded" as having been written or illustrated by "leftists." But the San Antonio News and the Express denounced her idea, and the library board turned it down. ¶ In Louisville, "the March grand jury recommended establishment of a committee to censor all magazines, comic books and other publications. The Courier-Journal . . . blasted the idea in an editorial asking: 'Who should tell an American what he can read? Congress? The churches? . . . Our own grand jury? None of them, if you ask us.' The committee was not formed." ¶ In Miami, the News...
...Ohio, Federal Judge James Mc-Namee set something of a precedent by barring the Youngstown police chief from setting himself up as a censor of "obscene literature." In New Jersey, a state judge slapped a prosecutor down for trying to ban books, ruled that he was violating the "constitutional guarantee of freedom of the press...
...Love shows that the third time around can be a distinctly sobering experience. The hero of the picture is a G.I. intended by the script to be just like every other G.I., and played by Kirk Douglas with aggressive averageness. The heroine is the girl of a censor's dreams-a nice-girl prostitute. Trying to be both at once, Actress Dany Robin seems most of the time like nobody at all, but she is one of the most appetizing new French dishes set before U.S. moviegoers in recent years...
Then Thimayya disposed of another Red trick. The 22 U.S. and one British "nonrepat" P.W.s complained they were getting mail from the U.S. designed to "intimidate, slander, coerce and bribe" them to go home; they demanded that the neutrals censor their mail. Thimayya said all right, if the other neutrals agreed, but "I asked them what we should do in the case of a letter from a man's wife who writes 'Oh, darling, please come home to me,' and they seemed a little unclear...