Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Censorship of the press has become a live issue on the Dartmouth campus this year, as University authorities there are moving to gain control of the "Dartmouth", Hanover undergraduate daily...
...meeting of President Hopkins and the 12 college trustees early in October is expected to reach a decision on the fate of the 100 year-old paper, which has been fighting college interference since the censorship question first arose last...
Meanwhile, President Benes and Premier Hodza had not cracked, calmly announced the Anglo-French demands were "receiving consideration." Prague papers were encouraged to print them in full, placed under rigid censorship as to editorial comment. As the Czechoslovak cabinet sat hour after hour indecisively pondering its answer to the Anglo-French proposals, the Government sent a blunt question to Paris: What would France do about its pact with Czechoslavakia if Prague's answer was no? The question was born of desperation. Under the treaty setups, Czechoslovakia can call on France for aid only if she is the victim...
...conviction of a group of C. I. O. sit-down strikers before the court had passed sentence; the other opposed a pending probation plea of two A. F. of L. members convicted of assault. When the Times published two editorials denouncing the suit as an attempt at press censorship, the Bar Association added them to its charge of contempt. All the editorials, the Bar Association claimed, were efforts to influence the court and interfere with the orderly administration of justice...
Many a foreign news dispatch to the U. S. is about one-tenth fact and nine-tenths rumor and conjecture. Working in a murky subterranean world of censorship, rumor-mongering and diplomatic duplicity, an honest reporter must search every shovelful of rumor for the nugget of fact, assay each fact for the elusive motive that gives it value. On the basis of a single such fact, not necessarily important in itself, an impressive and vaguely portentous flow of dispatches can be written from the capitals of Europe, recounting rumored reactions and reactions to reactions...