Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English publishers by Frank Swinnerton; an insane courtroom scene by Ring Lardner parodying the incoherent meanderings of James John Walker's defense counsel in the ex-mayor's trial before Governor Roosevelt (TIME, Aug. 22 et seq.); a vitriolic attack on the Church and censorship in Ireland by Liam O'Flaherty; an objection to the prevalence of sexless leading women on the stage by Critic Nathan; an argument by Dreiser for control of adult population; articles by Eugene O'Neill, Clarence Darrow, James Branch Cabell, Louis Untermeyer, Joseph Wood Krutch...
Brazil. On at least three fronts "the bloodiest civil war in South American history'' neared the end of its third month, ferociously fought by more than 125.000 Brazilians behind a nearly air-tight censorship...
Thus once again flared up the everlasting issue provided by Belgians who dwell near the Dutch frontier, speak Flemish and support secessionist movements. During the War, Allied censorship and propaganda concealed from U. S. citizens the existence in Belgium of a Flemish public opinion which disapproved completely of fighting Germany. Today in their great city of Antwerp, fourth largest port in Europe, portly Flemish merchants often shock U. S. exporters by talking like this...
...there was a third, and a fourth might follow. But two out of Chile's three new heads of State thus far had been the selfsame brainy little cranium of Don Carlos Guillermo Davila, onetime Chilean Ambassador at Washington. Thus the situation at Santiago was comparatively stable last week. Censorship had been clamped down tighter than ever and a state of siege declared. Outgoing telephone calls in English were censored by William Murray, Negro, onetime U. S. boxer. Negro Murray, owner of a gymnasium, enjoys the confidence of Santiago's elite and is not identified with "Yankee Imperialism...
Famine conditions in the United States are much worse than has been generally admitted, it appeared today, when through the rigid news censorship established by the Washington government leaked word that ferocious wild animals, driven by hunger, have deserted the forests and invaded towns looking for food...