Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skin much the same. In most European countries the State police is under the Minister of Interior. Last week Comrade Genrikh Grigorevitch Yagoda, Chief of the Ogpu, was transferred to the newly created Soviet portfolio of Commissar of Interior. He took with him the Ogpu staff, somewhat reduced. Censorship blurred details of the spot-changing, but the official newsorgan Pravda ("Truth") significantly informed Russians that "formation of the Commissariat of Interior does not mean that the campaign against traitors to the Soviet Fatherland and against agents of International Capital will be lessened...
Ever since the New Deal began, Republicans have grown more & more convinced that for all practical purposes the Radio was a Democratic monopoly, that censorship was being enforced on anti-Administration criticism. Last week Publisher Ogden Mills Reid of the New York Herald Tribune supplied his fellow G. O. Partisans with a bill of particulars on which they could argue their conviction during the coming campaign...
...good." He barely skinned through his oral arithmetic, written arithmetic, oral Russian, written Russian, history, biology and German. In these he was "fair." the lowest Bolshevik mark short of just passing. But Vassily is "good" at Russian literature, geography, physics, geometry and manual training. As a sop to Bolshevik censorship Correspondent Barnes stoutly declared Vassily is "one of those all-around boys who are interested in many things besides school work...
...down the peppery remarks he made after the second one to Cardinal Gasparri who was in charge. Nor does Cardinal O'Connell refer to the fact that he, a shrewd organizer whose power is supposed even to have extended to sponsoring Boston's famed theatrical censorship, has sometimes been called "The Pope of New England...
...many a year the U. S. churches have deplored what they call the brazen indecency of U. S. cinema. Their annual conferences have passed resolutions. Their clergy have lobbied for censorship bills. Their journals have crusaded. But for all their zeal the churches have accomplished very little. Last week, led by members of the Roman Catholic Church, they were embarked on a new crusade, brandishing a new weapon-the boycott. That they were in earnest impressed even hardboiled Variety, which for once put aside its racy style to tell about the "Legion of Decency" in a straightforward article headlined: "CATHOLICS...