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Although the British censor passed several conflicting reports on this affair (see p. 25), a later "official report" set the gossip straight. A German squadron had indeed started over Chatham. Home fighters had indeed gone up. But so prompt were they, so excited their brother gunners below, that when they returned (after scaring off the German eagles) their own guns powed them. One British pilot crashed dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Punches Held | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...self-appointed censor of local manners and morals was also a leader in the Council's attempt last fall to make Harvard a separate city...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WOULD CHANGE "HARVARD" TO "GEORGE WASHINGTON" SQUARE | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

Bachelor Mother (RKO Radio), despite a title calculated to arouse the curiosity of censor boards, is as wholesome and comic a twitting as bastardy has ever received. Although Polly Parrish (Ginger Rogers) is not the mother of the seven-months-old baby she brings to a foundling home, no one will believe her, because the infant howls when taken from her arms. Her predicament is complicated when her ex-boss's scapegrace son (David Niven), solicitous for the baby's welfare, gives her back her old job and a raise. Polly and her pals proceed in persistent misunderstandings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 10, 1939 | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...time he was advising Colonel Robin, who was also President Wilson's unofficial representative to the Kremlin. Alex Gumberg was advising Lenin on policy toward the U. S. In the revolutionary confusion he also found himself acting as press censor, an unofficial job which evolved from the fact that he was hanging around the Kremlin and could speak English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Confidential Adviser | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Despite these journalistic fidgets, broadcasters understood that radio, by its very nature, must exist under a tacit censorship, for so long as air-waves are limited, some agency must allocate them, and the power to allocate is the power to censor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: FCC Rules the Waves | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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