Word: censor
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...coarser vituperation at the White House than Senator Thomas D. Schall of Minnesota. His favorite accusation was that the New Deal was trying to muzzle the Press. Last week the blind Senator, egged on by Tory publishers, produced a new and startling charge: The Administration not only planned to censor the Associated Press, United Press and Hearst news services, but to start its own official press service to supplant them, after the fashion of Soviet Russia's Tass...
...anxious wives and sweethearts of Britain's warriors the insidious green potion that had been tempting their dear ones in bistros from Montmartre to Montparnasse. This harrowing revelation that British children yet unborn would pay for their father's absinthe drinking could never have passed His Majesty's censor had not the Times been privileged to announce simultaneously that the French Government was banning and prohibiting le diable vert (the green devil). Last week, after 19 years, all Europe was startled by persistent re ports of fresh absinthe deviltry in Paris...
Italy's chief cinema censor is Benito Mussolini, and his standards are Mother Hubbardish. But this month Il Duce let down all bars for the International Film Exposition at Venice. To bait this Fascist trap for tourists every major film firm in the world was permitted to send one picture, presumably its best, to be exhibited uncensored. Last week the Venice film show had been stolen by Extase ("Ecstasy"), a Czechoslovak film which nearly every country in the world has suppressed...
Although certain instruments are capable of producing vulgar onomatopoeic sounds, the Committee of Five stated that it would censor only song words or titles with questionable or double meanings. It intends meeting weekly, publishing lists of banned titles, claims the backing of orchestra leaders throughout the land. Lists will also be sent to music publishers with requests that lyricists change their sentiments to conform to Committee of Five standards...
...than with Caesar. She inveigles him aboard what the newspaper advertisements of this picture titillatingly refer to as her LOVE BARGE, gives him fancy hors d'oeuvres, wine in silver cups and clamshells full of pearls, served by classic chorus girls emerging from a fishing net as naked as Censor Joseph Breen will allow. During dinner, there is entertainment, with dancers dressed up like leopards and a premiere danseuse performing on the head and shoulders of a bull...