Word: censorable
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...proposed state commission to censor books and magazines was dealt a sharp setback Thursday when a clerical error was uncovered. The Legislative Commission on State Administration had rejected the measure instead of approving it, as had been reported...
...California, a group of 250,000 loyal citizens have set themselves up as a censor board for political unorthodoxy in movies. This group, Wage Earners of U.S.A. Inc., has drawn up a little list of 95 politically objectionable pictures and is planning to take action against 50 of them. As a kickoff, it is picketing "Death of a Salesman" because the author of the play on which the movie is based was alleged to have been connected with a Communist front at one time...
Immediately Mayor John B. Hines issued orders to clamp down and then issued the Friday command following a conference with state and city police, the Boston Licensing Board, and the city censor...
...chief censor is Interior Minister Theophilus Ebenhaezar Dönges, son of a Dutch Reformed clergyman. By law, he can ban anything he considers "indecent, obscene or. . . objectionable," and no court can overrule him. While his government is conducting an official inquiry into the policies of its own press and ceaselessly sniping at foreign correspondents who report from South Africa, Dönges has cut off more & more books and magazines that come from outside...
...last week, Censor Dönges had banned 260 publications, 133 of them from the U.S. Most were comics, pulps, detective chillers. But on his "B" list of "suspect" magazines, liable to banning, were many general U.S. magazines. Latest to feel the sting of Dönges' whip were bookstores. A fortnight ago, he ordered that all imported books be kept unopened in specially sealed bags until customs men could inspect them for "contraband" literature. In Johannesburg, there was a single customs man to cover 25 booksellers. Harried by clamoring customers, their stores crammed with unopened parcels, the booksellers...