Word: censorable
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Britain, which started off just as badly, has now straightened the situation out, he said. But while hoping that American might take England's example, von Hartz admitted that he was a victim of every newspaperman's dislike of the censor which is like "the public dislike for the baseball umpire...
Among the renowned outsiders participating in the Institute will be Archibald MacLeish, director of the OFF; Nicholas J. Spykman, author of "American Strategy in World Politics"; censor Byron Price; John Foster of the British Embassy; and Major Alexander P. de Seversky, author of "Victory Through Air Power." Walter Lippman is expected to attend but is not scheduled to speak...
Conferences between the F.B.I. and Northwestern's President Snyder and other University officials resulted in a virtual ultimatum to the Daily to refrain from making any comment whatever in regard to the War; as an alternative it offered a faculty censor to blue-pencil every item slated to appear. The off-shoot was a farcical situation in which the Daily began living in a vacuum, apparently oblivious of such things as Defense Stamps, War Production Boards, Panzer Divisions, and Japanese...
...USAFA headquarters, several hundred miles away, re-accredited them. First they were scooped on the news of the arrival of U.S. troops in Australia when the Chicago Sun's Edward Angly, who arrived on an earlier convoy, went to a neighboring town and filed a dispatch which the censor let slip past...
With characters such as these, it's not hard to figure out what the plot will be, though this one is slightly more absurd than the others. It involves Don Ameche's attempts to get around the British censor, to cable in the greatest story of his career--the invasion of England. In the great climax, just as the invasion is coming off, he finds himself trapped in a cellar with nothing but a beautiful girl, a time-bomb, and a teletype machine. The question is, what shall she do? Shall he lose the girl (who doesn't want...