Word: censoring
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...days after the Free Press incident, editors of Detroit papers got together in the office of the Detroit News with a close-clipped, tight-lipped censorship official from Toronto. They agreed: 1) that a censor should be stationed in Windsor to advise them, 2) that they would kill any story in their Canadian editions that the censor did not like...
...cabled slyly: "There will be no more Brussels sprouts,"a phrase the censor freely passed. Such finagling is not often attempted. Radio newscasters usually talk straight, depend on inflection to convey shades of meaning...
French authorities remained officially silent, but the censor passed an announcement that the former Commander in Chief of the Allied Armies was alive and in Paris...
...German troops crossed the River Somme, 70 miles from Paris, an official press release placed them on Belgium's River Sambre, 80 miles farther away. Wythe Williams, Paris correspondent for the New York Times (now a commentator for Mutual Broadcasting System in Manhattan) slipped a dispatch past the censor hinting that they were nearer, but his editors at home missed the point. Not until the Battle of the Marne was fought and won (on Sept. 9) did readers in the U. S. realize that the German Army had come within 30 miles of Paris...
...Supreme Court held that movies were "spectacles . . . capable of evil," that States might censor them at will. Not only States but pressure groups of all kinds have censored movies ever since. No group has pressed harder than the Roman Catholic Church. Its U. S. hierarchy sponsors the potent Catholic Legion of Decency "as a permanent protest against everything in the moving pictures which is subversive of morality...