Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William A. Brady, theatrical producer: "In a speech before the Chicago Woman's Club I said: 'Motion picture censorship in unAmerican. ... As a matter of fact, every reputable producer would send to Sing Sing any person who deliberately put a filthy scene on the screen...
...misfortune. Whereas five years ago there were six states which prohibited absolutely the sale of cigarettes within their boundaries, there are now only two. In the others, the drastic laws have been repealed. Another sphere of operations shows better results. Seven states and a number of cities have established censorship for motion pictures. But even here, their future is not too bright. A referendum showed Massachusetts squarely against such censorship, and fourteen other States have voted against it in their legislatures...
...Peking Government ordered the forts of Woo-Sung to open fire on the naval squadron that rebelled last week. The order was, however, ignored. The Government also stated that the naval rebels established a mail and telegraph censorship...
...whole body of literature from the Greek classics to George Moore for everybody, at least in New York State. That was the origin of the Clean Books Campaign wherein the mobilized blue forces of New York are attempting to jam through the legislature the most drastic piece of censorship in American history...
Surely here is censorship gone...