Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Free Press defenders was part of his message to the 25th annual banquet of the University of Missouri School of Journalism at Columbia. Mo. where the National Editorial Association of small-town papers was also convened. For the first time he categorically promised publishers that he would not try censorship: "Judging by the [news columns and editorials] in papers in every part of the country, this freedom is freer than it ever has been in our history. There has been no attempt in Washington to 'gag' news papermen or stifle editorial comment. There will be no such attempt...
Bointing out that the Directed Economy could only be realized by the use of force, Mr. Lippmann said. "It is no accident that wherever and whenever planned collectivism has been instituted . . . it has required censorship, espionage, and terrorism to make it work...
...which returned the fire. Seven workers, one woman, two soldiers and a policeman were wounded. Next day students staged a protest meeting, rioted again. Soldiers this time killed one, wounded 16. Spain. An almost complete general strike tied up Spain for the day. Killed: 1; wounded: 14. Chile. Tight censorship closed the Press after clashes between Santiago crowds and mounted carabineros had killed one, wounded 13. Russia. Moscow celebrated the national holiday for two days. The first was given over to the traditional military display in the Red Square, reviewed by Dictator Stalin and War Commissar Klimentiy Voroshilov. The second...
...Truth in drug, food and cosmetic advertising but: "Any attempt by government authority to impose a censorship in any form upon advertising would be an inexcusable intrusion into private business affairs...
...disgruntled diatribe of a known dissenter. A pamphleteer of gusty eloquence (both his parents were Congregational ministers), Author Eastman gives his tongue and lung free rein in this fat (261 pp.) pamphlet-philippic. His accusation: For eight years (1924-32) the Stalin dictatorship exercised such a stifling censorship over Russian authors that no independent creative writer now dares raise his voice in Russia. Eastman sees Russian letters now as "a mirthless desert waste inhabited by a few sincere fanatics and a horde of unexampled experts in bootlick, blackmail and blatherskite." As victims of this Inquisition he cites the late Sergei...