Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vigorous censorship was clamped on at Sofia, and served only to strengthen rumors of a plot against the Tsar similar to that which cost the life of King Alexander of Jugoslavia at Marseilles, France, this month...
Three days later, therefore, when the four du Fonts and their seven lawyers were again assembled, proceedings were carried on under partial censorship. Pierre du Pont testified that it was the company's policy to refuse business rather than pay bribes to government officials. A bundle of documents was promptly introduced showing that the du Pont company had paid large "commissions" to Chinese Nationalist officials in 1932, whose names, in accordance with the new procedure, were not released...
...because the heroine unhappily conceives her child before she is fully ready for marriage, although the picture is a splendid symbol of faith: and condemns Manhattan Melodrama because a criminal is not pictured as being rotten all the way to the core, then it has become more than censorship. It is stupidity...
...creditable features are thoroughness and speed. Thousands of words of copy, received by wire in Manhattan on Thursday, are read by subscribers on Friday afternoon. But rarely if ever does Editor & Publisher tread upon a toe within the industry. Perennial targets on its editorial page are Radio, press agentry, censorship, Freedom of the Press, persons who think advertising rates should be lowered or telegraph rates upped. A newsboy at 7, Editor Pew lately plumped for the 14-year limit for newsboys, against the publishers' lobby. He detests most gossip columnists, calls Walter Winchell a "journalistic gangster...
...large part of the Ogpu Special Troops, an army of super-drilled and super-equipped Praetorian Guards of the Soviet Regime. Up to now they have "liquidated" with poison gas, machine-guns and shrapnel every trace of political opposition to Dictator Stalin. Most recently wiped out, behind censorship, was a secessionist movement in the Ukraine last winter...