Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...report after report whanged loudly on a few familiar strings: 1) The Press is being harassed or threatened on all fronts by punitive legislation. 2) NRA has upped production costs. 3) Pernicious regulations of advertising have cut down revenue. 4) The Administration is trying to throttle the Press by censorship...
...only a well-chewed bone of a few watchdog's like Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick and Editor Marlen Pew of Editor & Publisher, the convention proved the contrary. With a few notable exceptions, the rank & file of U. S. publishers genuinely believe that the Administration is capable of imposing censorship, that they scored a momentous victory in forcing into the Newspaper Code a clause reaffirming the Constitutional guarantee of a free Press. Cheered to the rafters was Col. McCormick, chairman of the A. N. P. A.'s Press freedom committee, after reviewing his almost daily battles with General Johnson...
General Johnson who made a speech, blunt, picturesque, reproachful, conciliatory. Excerpts: "We have been accused of a diabolical desire to impose a censorship on the Press. Considering the articles in opposition to the president's program, we certainly have made the poorest kind of mess, if control of the agencies of publicity was one of our objects...
...propaganda for their cause: supporters of the Spanish Republic (which Observer Dos Passos, with a straight face but an oblique eye, calls ''The Republic of Honest Men'') will not welcome his unveiling of last year's uprising at Casas Viejas and its bloody censorship...
...Salons of America, an offshoot, was started four years later by disgruntled Independents. As anyone might have predicted, the fight this year centered upon the now hoary squabble between Rivera and Rockefeller Center, in which both societies were invited to exhibit. Claiming that Rockefeller authorities were certain to exercise censorship, John Sloan's Independents refused, went instead to the Grand Central Palace. Claiming exactly the opposite, the Salons went to the Center. Joy to the public of a no-jury show is that anybody can exhibit, for a small membership fee. Joy to the critics is that the shows...