Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Censorship makes producers and directors dishonest. You cannot say that a man and a woman are having an affair. Somehow by hints and insinuations you have to get around this, and as a result you get something emasculated...
...Censorship is what ruins the plays which are taken from Broadway and turned into pictures," continued Mr. Gribble, "It makes motion picture production absolutely dishonest. There isn't a fact of life which can be shown on the screen. In certain shows you can't even mention the fact that a woman is going to have a baby. The reason why pictures are unintelligible even to minors is that they are not made to conform with any standard of morality but with a synthetic code made up by committees of bigoted people...
...Allies are partly responsible for the 'reign of terrer' in Nazi Germany," said Lord Dudley Marley, Vice-Chairman of the British House of Lords, and Chairman of the World Committee to Aid the Victims of the Nazi Regime. "We must not be fooled by Nazi censorship into thinking that the terror is over, for the torture is more brutal and there are more deaths from cruel treatment today than there were a year...
Even though it had censored "The Sizzlers" and their gin program, WOR was taking a grave chance of losing its broadcasting license. The prudish Federal Radio Commission, which always points out that it has no powers of censorship but which nevertheless can brush an offending station off the air overnight, had just laid down the doctrine that alcohol advertisements must be kept off the air. All broadcasters were thus warned...
...which almost everyone has forgotten about is his method of laying the ghost. Mr. Parker, I hardly need add, is not being humorous and is offering his solution of a very, puzzling problem in all seriousness; and Mr. Parker, I think, is right. Ghosts are the only explanation of censorship psychology...