Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their death struggle barrage, the lot of the average broadcasting company is not a happy one. The Columbia system singed its fingers badly Saturday when it cut from the air Senator Vandenburgh's "debate" against Mr. Roosevelt's recorded voice, simply on a technicality. But despite the clamor of censorship, the company's stand appears well founded. For who would dare to speak on the radio if his words might at any time thereafter be trumpeted throughout the nation and knocked silly by a clever political enemy, while he himself stood by deprived of all defense and rebuttal...
Back cracked Nominee Landon in Topeka: "This Administration seems to be finding a lot of red herrings. It's too bad we can't eat them. ... As I said to Kansas newspapermen some time ago, we are not only having censorship of news but censorship of the sources of news under this Administration. . . . The New Deal is resisting every attempt to get the facts about the WPA. . . . As I have said before, they are afraid that publicity would reveal waste and extravagance...
...Lowell changes, and stood ready to welcome President Conant. Mother Advocate has twice sent her sons off to war, and has herself endured the aftermath's of three. For her, life has not been easy going. It has been a difficult battle to survive the blows of depressions and censorship, predudice and intolerance. During her lifetime lesser publications have sprung up, lived for a brief period and fallen by the wayside. But the rather remarkable vitality of old Mother Advocate is not a quirk of pure fortune. That today she may look back upon an enviable record goes deeper than...
Once the royal signature "Edward R. I." had been affixed, it became possible for grim-jawed Lieut. General John Greer Dill, commanding the new British Expeditionary Force in Palestine (TIME, Oct. 5), to: 1) impose censorship of the press and all communications; 2) issue regulations which, so long as they are in the form "for the public safety," may be of any kind General Dill thinks best and unchallengeable in any court of law; 3) order the arrest, detention or exclusion from Palestine of anyone; 4) order private property forfeited to the Crown or destroyed as a punitive measure. Arab...
...class year book, wrote the play two years ago and submitted it to the Dramatic Club for production last spring. The Club Executive Committee is reported to have liked the show on reading it last December, but turned it down because of production difficulties and very possible censorship from the University or City Hall. At this time, the Club put on PUDDING FULL OF PLUMS, another student written offering...