Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Obviously the more complete Paul von Hindenburg discredits himself in the eyes of the world, the better for ambitious Adolf Hitler who last week was in effect Dictator of Germany with complete control of press censorship...
...curious thing about the whole censorship situation is that an announcement that the Can-Can Shimmy Girls were to go on at Charles Street would very probably arouse censorial activity, while if certain bits of dialogue were transposed from "The Front Page" to the stage of the Howard Athenaeum, that venerable institution would be closed not for just a month, but always. From this we might draw a reaffirmation of the proverb "there's a time and place for everything." Primitive reportorial humor is just as acceptable in a newspaper play as hard swearing was in the dugout in "What...
Temporarily Havana was cut off from the provinces when telephone and telegraph wires were slashed in a dozen places. Suspecting revolt in Santiago, 800 government troops commandeered the night express, rushed thither. When communications were restored, iron government censorship left correspondents in Havana uncertain whether revolution...
...fiction. Queer mixtures of Rabelaisian spade-calling, bell laughter and poetic proletarianism, God's Little Acre luridly illustrates two present-day intelligentsiac trends: towards unashamed sensuality, against capitalistic industry. It also underlines a recent tendency of U. S. publishers: to go as near the limits of censorship as possible...
What King Alexander thinks should become of amputated Croatia, Svetozar Pribitchevitch did not reveal. His other "revelations"-true or false-caused a terrific Belgrade sensation, set many citizens of the Capital to vowing that they had a "traitor King." According to a telephoned despatch from Belgrade which eluded censorship: "His Majesty suffered last night from a three-hour nervous collapse brought on by fear of assassination...