Word: censored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Naturally, Professor Shapley has run into some censor trouble. When he cabled instructions to Harvard's South African Observatory to "shoot nightly using whole battery" (meaning: watch Nova Puppis nightly with all telescopes), censors ordered him to mend his language. His most troublesome message was one announcing the discovery of Diamaca's Comet. Diamaca, a Rumanian amateur, cabled his news to Harvard by way of Denmark and Switzerland. A U.S. Navy officer promptly called on Professor Shapley. What, the Navy wanted to know, was the meaning of the last two words in the cable: "Popovici Stroemgren." After...
...camp Nazis tried to censor books in the prison libraries. They put books they did not want their prison mates to read on separate shelves and passed the word that these shelves were verboten. Army officials soon put a stop to that. But positive Nazi propaganda is hard to curb. Because of the scarcity of German-speaking guards, the Nazis can proselyte openly. In one so-called art class, conducted by a Nazi, students diligently repeated lessons right out of the Nazi book: the statue of a racially impure woman is unschön (ugly); art should be Zweck-Kunst...
...once a barrage of furious criticism opened up against Moss. The man who had called Trio "lewd, lascivious and immoral" was himself called "dictatorial," "bigoted," "one-man censor."* In the growing uproar, 19 organizations denounced Moss. Some demanded that Mayor LaGuardia fire...
...Asked by TIME: "Do you want to make a statement on why you did not hale them to court?", Commissioner Moss emphatically replied: "No ma'am!" *Last week the City Center itself put on a lusty Frankie and Johnnie ballet which might well have attracted a censor's attention (see Music). Taunted Daily News Critic John Chapman in his review: "License Commissioner Paul Moss last night sponsored a dirty show which had in it bawds, a pimp and a couple of Lesbians." And Columnist Leonard Lyons recalled that Moss once co-produced Noel Coward's This...
...Premier found another hall for his speech. But all Bucharest printers were ordered by their trade union not to print it. Premier Radescu ordered the Government censor "to censor nothing whatever in . . . the papers enjoying the trade union's support, even if they were to print insults addressed to me." He added: "I do not care to stay in the position I am now holding if the country does not wish it." This seemed to suit the N.D.F.'s apparent purpose: to force out Radescu, force in a leftist Government...