Word: censorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago's suburban Oak Park 100 American Legionaries with overseas caps and a big U. S. flag appeared at the First Congregational Church to censor an address to its young peoples' society by Illinois' Communist Gubernatorial Candidate Samuel T. Hammersmark. Also present were some 500 Oak Park matrons & men who hissed, booed, yowled, screamed "Liar!" and "Murderer" so lustily that the Legionaries were forced to reverse their role, protect the speaker from his audience. Up stood the church's Pastor Albert Buckner Coe at meeting's end, said to Red Hammersmark...
...Marlene Dietrich's forthcoming Knight Without: Armor for Alexander Korda,La Kermesse Héroïque explodes the theory that Rene Clair has a monopoly on urbane comedy in the French cinema. It is as sly a farce as any that has ever led a U. S. censor board to mistake good manners for innocent intentions. Produced at a cost of $850,000-fabulous for a French cinema-and magnificently set by Lazare Meerson, it was distinguished abroad by winning the grand Prix du Cinema Français, being banned in England and Holland. Released as Carnival...
...copy of this week's TIME (Aug. 31), p. 19 & 20 have been deleted by the British censor. To insure that in future we get our TIME intact we are ordering our issue direct from your circulation office...
...attain such "culture," Russian comrades are now strongly urged by their Dictator to become neater in dress, mind and habits. Last week a prominent Soviet journalist who had just been received in the Kremlin told one of the few off-the-record stories about Stalin to get by the censor...
...censor-ridden Germany seeped news last week of a 4,000-word letter sent to Reichsführer Adolf Hitler last month, in which ten responsible pastors of the German Evangelical Protestant Church daringly protested against the entire credo and technique of the National Socialist Party. This remarkable document, phrased with an air of winning deference, indicted: 1) Nazi concentration camps; 2) the Nazi espionage system within the country; 3 ) the extralegal powers of the secret political police; 4) Nazi persecution of the German Protestant churches; 5) the Nazi philosophy of "blood, race and soil"; 6) the training of school...