Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months later it was announced that the ban was lifted. Each issue of TIME, however, would have to be reviewed by the Customs for "objection able material" before being released. For a while newsstand copies were admitted, but subscriber copies met a postal censorship which developed into an outright, though unannounced, embargo. No matter how hard he tried, Correspondent Johnson was never able to see the Postmaster General...
Vargas, who began his presidency as a social reformer, soon moved toward dictatorship. Before he was through, he was ruling by decree, had established an ironbound press censorship, and jailed his critics. Three times Dutra saved Vargas from overthrow. He got his reward. By 1935, he was a General of Division; the next year, Minister...
Unlike TIME'S three other International editions, which are published by TIME-LIFE International for readers in 178 countries and possessions outside the U.S., TIME Canadian has not had to struggle with transportation difficulties, censorship, bans, dollar shortages, import restrictions, iron curtains, and a host of other problems. It is printed in Chicago, and copies are in the hands of most Canadian readers by the time U.S. readers get theirs...
...Chinese Communist troops marched toward Shanghai last week, an advance column of rumors invaded the panicky city and its press. The harried commander of Shanghai's Nationalist garrison rushed into print with a censorship order that brought a snicker even from the censored newsmen. Stated Regulation No. 6: "Except [for] the news released by this headquarters, all ... newspapers and news agencies are forbidden to publish other inaccurate war news...
...order had a drastic effect on war news in Shanghai's 25 Chinese and four English-language newspapers. Before the order, the newspapers had carried such headlines as: KASHING CAPTURED BY RED TROOPS ; COMMUNISTS RACING SOUTH, EAST TO ISOLATE SHANGHAI AREA. Post-Censorship headlines: HASHING STILL IN GOVERNMENT HANDS; SHANGHAI AREA GUARDED BY CRACK GOVERNMENT TROOPS...