Word: censoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Curtly last week President Roosevelt informed Chairman McSwain that the Generals' views were neither his nor the nation's, that should the affair be repeated, he would pre-censor all army testimony before Congress. Mr. McSwain humbly apologized for the blunder...
...vengeance, exacted from citizens of Leningrad for the assassination there of the Dictator's "Dear Friend" Sergei Kirov (TIME. Dec. 10). Correspondents, unable to pry a single fact from the State since it announced that 1,074 Leningraders had been arrested, did get past the Soviet censor last week these bits of circumstantial news...
...British Royal Navy few families are closer to His Majesty than the Im Thurns. When George V was "England's Sailor Prince" he tossed off many a Scotch & soda with Im Thurn cronies. Last week a Sofia dispatch passed by the Bulgarian censor stated flatly that when Rear Admiral Im Thurn landed he "had instructions to urge the military leaders in Bulgaria not to do anything that might lead to abandonment of the monarchist form of government...
...escape for censor-ridden Bostonians and exam-ridden students, the producers of O'Casey's play have arranged for a $16.50 all expense trip to New York City which includes a round-trip railroad-fare, accommodations at the Hotel Lincoln for Saturday night, and an orchestra seat in the National Theatre. The streamlined "Within the Gates" Special leaves the South Stations about noon Saturday, and returns from New York about midnight Sunday. As an added inducement, a diner has been added to the train for lunch...
...City Censor McNary is a successor of City Censor John Michael Casey, longtime trap drummer in Boston burlesque houses. When a railroad accident cost him his arm, Mr. Casey abandoned his career as a tympanist, became a zealous overseer of Boston's morals...