Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LIVING-Erskine Caldwell-Viking ($2). The late great Mark Twain never dared be quite as funny in public as he knew how to be in private; the censorship of his day was too much for him. Nowadays literary fashions are franker: almost everything can be said in print, and nearly everything is. Of all the young writers who frisk it in their new-found freedom, few kick higher heels than Erskine Caldwell, husky 30-year-old Georgian, the Methodist minister's son whose ribald God's Little Acre (TIME, Feb. 20) fell foul of Vice-Crusader John...
...spirited enterprise. I trust it will prove profitable from a business standpoint. Irving M. ENGEL New York City May I join with the thousands of other admirers of "The March of TIME" in congratulating you on your vision and public spirit in agreeing to support this excellent program without censorship? I think that the future of radio in America - from a qualitative point of view - is rather intimately tied up with this very distinctive program. ALDEN B. MILLS Chicago, Ill. I congratulate you and your company on your farsightedness on tying up with the editors of TIME in returning...
Discreetly behind a cloud of Prussian censorship last week Minister of Justice Kerrl and Premier Göring were making it possible for scores if not hundreds of wealthy tax-dodgers to hold their heads high...
...correcting the errors of sportswriters. Last week "Churchman" Fletcher announced his retirement and the Transcript gave its readers a new and strikingly different religious editor. Dr. Albert Charles Dieffenbach is a religious Liberal, a believer in Humanism, Birth Control and Soviet Russia, an opponent of stage and book censorship. Successively a Reformed Church minister-missionary and a Unitarian minister, Dr. Dieffenbach became editor 15 years ago of the Christian Register, one of the oldest religious papers in the U. S. Observers have traced the Scopes trial in Tennessee to Dr. Dieffenbach's pungent words: it was he who first...
...reason: newspaper publishing "is not an industry but an enterprise of such peculiar importance as to be especially provided for in the Constitution of the U. S. . . . whose independence must be jealously guarded from any interference which can lead to or approximate censorship...