Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston censorship is like a vacuum cleaner; it beats everything; it finds the hidden dirt, and it makes considerable noise in doing so. Just recently Mayor Nichols has decided to ban the stage version of "Strange Interlude." Although the Watch and Ward Society is considering the suppression of the book, it may still be purchased in any local bookstore, so that he who runs fast enough may read...
...Martial law was enforced. Six o'clock curfew was ordered, armored cars guarded the streets and airplanes watched from above. Censorship was rigid...
...founder of the Czechoslovak Republic with famed President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk? could possibly have tinkered together in secret the new three-in-one "Great Power." For the day after its revelation. Ceske Slovo announced that the entire story "must be considered as withdrawn." In all the "Little Entente" countries censorship was clamped on tight. None of the three Governments made an announcement or explanation. What could not be hushed up in the U. S. can and frequently is hushed in Central Europe. From Prague the only U. S. daily correspondent (New York Times) who handled the story was able...
Rumanians do not yet know the half of Her Majesty Queen Marie's exuberant doings (TIME, Oct. 25, 1926, et seq.) and endorsings in the U. S. Rumanian censorship obliterates lèse-majesteé. Last week a mite of the spicy truth leaked out at Bucharest. Wrote intrepid Publicist Grigore Filipescu...
When churchmen discuss the cinema it is usually in terms of censorship. Unusual was the appointment last week by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America of a cinema commission which, instead of trying to weed out the bad, will attempt to find the good-recommend cinema for church programs; dispense cineminformation; encourage films promoting international goodwill; study the relation between the cinema and public welfare...