Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...books as if they were so much paper and ink, and not as expressions of real civilization. No matter how much the choices of each government may be criticised, then, an interest will be aroused which did not exist before, which may result in a closer examination of governmental censorship and taxation. If the interest in foreign literature grows, it is even possible that Congress may be forced to repeal the infamous "tax on knowledge", which makes foreign books so inordinately expensive in America...
...cloud of censorship hangs over the view of Turkey...
...Robert H. Lowrie. "Is America so bad, after all?" he asks, in an article in the April Century Magazine, and happily finds that it isn't. To people who shudder at the somewhat quixotic actions of the American Legion, or gnash their teeth in impotent rage over book censorship, nothing could be more encouraging...
...crass materialism it has forgotten the great broad theories and ideals of government upon which it was founded. A little sound reflective thought is needed, a restatement of creeds and goals. A sound conception of the nature and sphere of government would prevent, for example, the motion picture censorship undertaken by the municipal Worcester Board of Review which is now to use Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and members of the Worcester Boys' and Girls' Club as judges. Even the Boston American sees the absurdity of this movement, and gently pokes fun: "It is understood the theory is that...
...action to laugh the perpetrators of the absurdity to shame. It is allowed to take its place with the Kentucky anti-evolutionary teaching law the Kansas anti-cigarette bill, and the Zion City bye-laws as an expression of American democracy. The puerile "clean book" bills and the theatre censorship regulations of New York begin to appear truly dignified and truly American by the side of such bigoted officialism...