Word: censoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This renewed threat of a Democrat Party purge forecast active Roosevelt participation in the 1940 primaries and, in the continued omission of a personal disclaimer, promised the continued presence of Franklin Roosevelt as a censor of other candidacies if not a real candidate...
Italians pay allegiance to II Duce, II Papa, II Re. It is no secret, even in censor-ridden Italy, that the agnostic peasant's son who commands the lion's share of the allegiance is quietly deplored by Pope and King. Last week that division in sentiment passed a crisis which has long been building...
...Britain, however, the 6th Earl of Clarendon, the Lord Chamberlain (alias, censor of Britain's stage and literature), keeps an eagle eye out not only for theatrical obscenity, profanity, sacrilege and references to royalty but also for possible insults to heads of foreign States. Last week, perusing the book and lyrics of a new London revue, Censor Lord Clarendon spotted a song entitled Even Hitler Had a Mother, hastily banned the piece. The forbidden ditty...
Regarding the Coughlin controversy, I would suggest that you censor the stuff of the Hebrew and Left Wing members of your staff closely, as nobody is more vindictive than a single track Communist when someone tells the truth about their great & noble cause. For years all Communists have been rabid Coughlin haters and for good reason as nobody has done a better job of throwing the light of truth on these Christ haters...
...July 1936, when Pius XI praised the Catholic Legion of Decency for its good work in helping to clean up the U. S. cinema industry, most cinemaddicts were inclined to agree with him. Since then, U. S. cinema censors have grown bold enough to be a nuisance. Primary screen censor is the Hays organization in Hollywood, which has an elaborate code explaining what kind of pictures producers may or may not make. Secondary screen censors are State and municipal boards which, even when the Hays organization has passed a picture, can forbid its showing. Last week, the New York State...