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Word: censorships (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German-born New Yorker named John Peter Zenger. Onetime apprentice to Publisher William Bradford of New York City's only newspaper, the New York Weekly Gazette, he had set himself up as a printer, though continuing to contribute occasionally to the Gazette. When William Bradford, numbed by official censorship, saw Printer Zenger's frank account of the election he threw up his hands, refused to print it. John Peter Zenger forthwith started a newspaper of his own, the New York Weekly Journal, came out next week with a special broadside describing the election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Freedom's Birthday | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

...anniversary could not have come at a more appropriate time. In Washington, NRA and newspaper representatives were still deadlocked over Sections 11 (free press) and 14 (open shop) of the proposed newspaper code. Throughout the land the Press rumbled and shrilled at the spectre of government licensing and union censorship which it saw implied in NRA's insistence on elimination of these sections. At the Inland Daily Press Association convention in Chicago last week Publisher McCormick and Secretary Edward H. Harris of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association each pointed a fore boding finger at Germany's Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Freedom's Birthday | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

...rebel planes, one of which crashed in the Me Nam River hard by the Royal Palace. When the rebel Army reached Bangkok's gates, Premier Phya Bahol defiantly announced, "You have until 3 p. m. to depart." After that the Government's artillery opened fire and censorship shut down tight. Europeans who fled from Bangkok to the Straits Settlements reported that the Siamese Navy had joined the revolt and seized the National Arsenal but that the Army was still supporting the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: Not Without Blood | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

...reply, Editor True asked for instances of his inaccuracy, called barring newsmen from conferences "an effective censorship," promised to be at General Johnson's next conference anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Fly Out of Ointment | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

...objects to censorship by the Boston Police Department, where at least it is diverting; but in a university--a forum for minds--it is unthinkable. Yet censorship of a contemptibly petty stamp exists in this University. I refer to the use in certain language courses of texts in which the editors have seen fit to make deletions from the originals. Any one who has compared the authorized edition of Keller's "Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe" with the high school text now used in German 1a can appreciate how the editor of the latter has so subtly and judiciously...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "...Or Are We Mice?" | 10/3/1933 | See Source »

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