Word: censorable
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...Censor Wilkinson has had his troubles with the March of Time from its inception. Overruling the March of Time's claim that, as journalism in celluloid, it must be as free to handle controversial news as the Press, Watchdog Wilkinson has on various occasions removed from the British March of Time shots of German Nazis persecuting Jews, members of the French People's Front demonstrating against the Fascist Croix...
...Federal Food & Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission, heckled by Consumers' Research, rebuffed by self-respecting magazines and newspapers when the extravagant claims of occasional products verged on quackery, members of the Proprietary Association two years ago organ-ized an "advisory committee on advertising" to censor the commercial announcements of all its members. Hired as censor-in-chief was Edward H. Gardner, onetime professor of Advertising & Marketing at University of Wisconsin, more recently a pundit for J. Walter Thompson Co. During the year, Censor Gardner reported, drug manufacturers submitted $70,000,000 worth of advertising copy for approval...
...young Christoph Kroysing, Berlin's self-pity vanishes. Kroysing had discovered some fellow-non-coms were selling army rations instead of distributing them to their hungry men; he had been so foolish as to write an influential uncle about it. Of course his letter was stopped by the censor, and he was threatened with court martial. Kroysing would have welcomed the chance to testify, but the court martial was indefinitely postponed, and he was transferred to a dangerous advanced post, kept there on the supposition that sooner or later he would be killed. Day after he tells Berlin...
Blasting President Roosevelt with all the vituperative power at his command, David Lawrence, noted Washington correspondent, has charged the Administration with trying to censor his column. When a G. O. P. authority mentioned Lawrence's name among a list of prominent syndicated writers, Charlie Michelson, Democratic hero of the 1932 "smear Hoover" campaign, immediately dubbed him a Republican hireling, and hence unworthy to interpret the news. Resenting Administrative hostility and scenting a plot to strangle independent newsmen, Lawrence has raised a long and justifiable howl...
...this reviewer, the bowdlerizing of the script seemed no great loss, except that it brought the exceeding weakness of the dramatic construction out from behind the screen of "life in the raw" or whatever it was that the censor didn't like. For in this case the play certainly is not the thing. Two acts of half-baked comedy are capped by one of equally misshapen tragedy, with the whole thing ineffectually sprinkled over by the note of abject poverty and misery...