Word: censor
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Everywhere people discussed politics openly and frankly. No censor was at work. But the character of the press had changed. Individuals could no longer publish newspapers. Only groups (political parties, unions, etc. had the right. At first the new press displayed a striking sameness in content, tameness in outlook. Recently polemical fur has begun to fly between Socialists and Communists...
...never can tell what he may say. To 2,000 diners at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, welcoming the Admiral back home last week, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz lapsed into doggerel. The verses, he explained, about a sailor named Patsy McCoy, had been found by a Navy censor, going through the mail...
General MacArthur said that his decree had been "concurred in" by the War Department. Newsmen wondered how censor-free they were so long as an Army officer could decide who could go where...
...Domei lectured the invading forces on how they must behave (TIME, Sept. 17), published eight bright suggestions on how Japanese women might avoid rape by brutal U.S. troops, explained why Japanese war criminals should not be punished too severely. Most galling to U.S. reporters, Domei dispatches at first were censor-free, later given only a once-over-lightly by U.S. blue pencils...
...Federal Communications Commission has no direct power to censor radio. But its power to revoke a station's license (when it appears necessary "in the public interest") keeps the radio industry worried anyway...