Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...themselves in their straw-thatched izby, refused to buy or sell, to work any land but their own. Last week, gaunt, rag-clad peasants, enraged at individuals who profited by delivering foodstuffs, took to barring the roads, overturning market trucks, destroying farm produce. Reports seeping through the iron press censorship told of sporadic clashes with police, with 56 casualties the result. Before long the strike took an anti-Semitic turn. Roving peasant bands attacked Jewish markets, set upon Jewish peddlers handling farm products...
China and Spain have jockeyed for preferred position on the world's front pages for nearly a month, and up to last week China has had the upper hand. The Chinese war was a new upheaval; it burst squarely in the correspondents' laps; there was virtually no censorship to plague the press. Shanghai was a Richard Harding Davis dream, and newspapers pushed the good luck while it lasted. Combining enterprise with luck, the Associated Press obtained one of the most complete picture beats of the year. It got a fine shot of the bombing of the Shanghai waterfront...
Meanwhile, in Spain the international civil war had been going on so long (nearly 14 months) that the 400-odd newspapermen covering it were footsore, seat-sore and weary. The novelty had worn off. The twin bogies of communication and censorship had cut down the number of scoops. With professional envy the correspondents in Spain were eying China, where their colleagues were stealing the headlines. But Spain from the press standpoint presented a far more significant job, for in Spain, the press was tackling the day-in, day-out job of covering a modern...
...Rightist censorship has been more rigid and systematic than the Government's, which occasionally lapses into periods of semi-freedom. This usually happens when news is thin. But when a correspondent tries to telephone a big story from Madrid, the receiving offices in Paris and London often get a curious blend of bells, roars and radio speeches This sort of thing is so hard on the average correspondent's nerves, that he usually sends most of his copy by telegraph, where the censorship is automatic and predictable. A little palm-greasing will sometimes get a dispatch by courier...
...strong A. A. A had come forth to play the part. ' That part will consist in being pretty much the One Big Union of show busines assuming full responsibility for jurisdictional disputes, integrating the unions into a harmonious structure, planning long range policies. It will light censorship, act as liaison between acting groups and other unions, give a lift to WPActors...