Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile Secretary and Mrs. Hull were all but lost in Buenos Aires so far as correspondents were concerned, when Argentine rebels shot up several rural areas and President Justo, after placing the entire nation under a "state of siege" clapped on all news the tightest censorship in years. Private cables assured the State Department that its chief was safe, proceeding with Mrs. Hull to Chile where he will sail home up the west coast of South America (he sailed down the east coast). According to President Justo, who had Argentine news decidedly all his own way, the series of rebellions...
...over to the King's side and set valiantly to work suppressing anti-Semitism and a terrorist organization known as the Iron Guard. Beyond question it was the Iron Guard that killed him. Martial law was declared throughout the country; all army leaves were canceled; an iron-clad censorship was clapped on the Press. Detectives went out in squads, picking up every known member of the Iron Guard, 1,400 in all. A special bodyguard was set over King Carol's Jewish mistress, Magda Lupescu...
When Editor Arnold Beichman of Columbia's troublemaking Spectator declared for a free college press, his resolution was snowed under. Several scholarship-holding editors leaped to their feet to defend a college's right, through faculty censorship, to keep "its dirty linen from being washed in public." Similarly swamped was a resolution by Student President Sara Mentschekoff of Hunter that R. 0. T. C. funds be diverted to general educational activities...
...case in May, 1932 when it seized an unexpurgated copy sent to Publisher Bennett A. Cerf from Paris. Last fortnight there was a hearing in the small elegantly informal courtroom of the Bar Association Building. Publisher Cerf's lawyer, Morris Ernst, who makes a specialty of fighting censorship cases, contended that he had yet to find a single instance which proved that reading any book had led to the commission of a crime. Assistant U. S. Attorney Samuel C. Coleman asked the court not to regard him as a "puritanical censor," said he found "ample grounds to consider Ulysses...
...history of Ulysses is, in part, the history of literary censorship in the U. S. Irishman James Joyce started writing his colossal story of one Dublin day in France in 1914. In 1918 Ezra Pound sent part of it to Margaret Anderson who published it in her Little Review. The U. S. Post Office Department seized and burned all copies sent through the mails. Vice Suppressor John S. Sumner* had Margaret Anderson indicted for publishing indecent matter, caused her and her Co-Editor Jane Heap to be fined $50. Thirty thousand copies of Ulysses have been sold in France, mostly...