Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Logical argument, of course, is a particularly inefficacious mode of attack against anything so completely irrational as American censorship. The only way to stop definitely and forever the gyrations of our censors is to concentrate the weight of public opinion upon them; since they are hardened, by the very nature of their work, against derision from the masses, the only feasible method of getting at them is through the courts. Judge Woolsey has it in his power to set a valuable precedent, and to make more difficult the way for the semi-moronic individuals who watch over the public morals...
...secret was it that Dr. Sprague was considering resigning. The moment came when Pupil Morgenthau, as Acting Secretary of the Treasury, decided there was room for only one school of thought, announced rigorous censorship of Treasury news, forbade government officials direct contact with the Press. Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague forthwith called newsmen together, issued his resignation. Said he, in a letter to the President...
...chin, ear and eye, with black hair dipping into an acute widow's peak, Kataev is 36, just about the right age for a New Russian. His earlier book (The Embezzlers ) was written with such humorous disregard of officialdom that U. S. readers wondered about Russia's censorship. In Russia Kataev is one of the most widely read and one of the most popular of Russia's playwrights. His Squaring the Circle had a long run at the Moscow Art Theatre Studio, was produced by Max Reinhardt in Berlin...
Editor True shouted "Censorship!" He said he would be at the General's next conference anyway. Last week some 200 excited newsmen saw him get no further than the door, despite a telegram from Grocery Trade News calling him its accredited correspondent. At the conference General Johnson, looking calmer and neater than usual, denied any intention, of censoring genuine press members, said he objected only to misrepresentation of NRA by "confidential'' writers who got their information by posing as accredited representatives of newspapers or trade journals. That day the correspondents' admissions committee barred James True from...
Meanwhile in Washington a torch of would-be martyrdom to government censorship sputtered dismally out. James True is a white-haired, pince-nezzed newsman who has pattered apologetically in & out of Washington press conferences for many a year. Lately he gave up regular correspondence for several trade journals, began writing a "confidential news letter" called Industrial Control Reports. Last fortnight General Johnson charged James True with filling his letter with ''Misinformation and sabotage" of NRA, barred him from future NRA press conferences (TIME...