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...House, in less than half an hour, voted yesterday to repeal 57 wartime statutes--ranging from the law empowering the President to censor communications with foreign countries, to his authority to employ $1-a-year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dutch, French Disagree on Issue of Germany's Economic Recovery; Truman Poised with Tax Cut Veto | 7/18/1947 | See Source »

...land of violent opinions, quiet Judah Magnes has won the respect of Jews, the British, and Arab moderates. He has not always been so quiet. As the editor of the college annual at the University of Cincinnati, he once raised such a commotion when a dean tried to censor him that the university's president was replaced during the resulting rumpus. As the young rabbi of a Reform Temple in Brooklyn, he led a funeral procession up Manhattan's Fifth Avenue to mourn pogroms in Czarist Russia. His fashionable congregation objected, and Magnes resigned. During World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pacifist in Palestine | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...censor shears went flicker-flack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rankypanky | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

After he has made the agreement, usually verbal, to spend hundreds of thousands or millions, he has little more to do with a picture until it is ready for distribution. But then his problems begin. He is, in effect, Britain's movie censor, and as such often gets into brangles with Hollywood's Johnston Office. On one of these occasions, when there was too much "cleavage" for the Johnston Office in a Rank film, he spluttered in bewilderment: "But in England, bosoms aren't sexy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: King Arthur & Co. | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...commits suicide. Helga becomes his second wife. Because she knows that Daniel still loves Teresa, she spends a night with a handsome interloper. Later, Daniel falls in love with Helga, and proves to Helga's satisfaction that her night with the interloper was only a dream. To censor-ridden Hollywood the dream gimmick alone is worth almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Escapist | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

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