Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Censorship. Last summer Columbia Broadcasting System announced it would no longer sell its time to preachers, would instead put on its own "Church of the Air." Many people believe that this change of policy was caused by the broadcasts of Rev. Charles E. Coughlin from the Shrine of the Little Flower of Jesus near Detroit. Father Coughlin organized his own chain, has since broadcast to a large audience. Last week The Christian Century, while calling Father Coughlin "erratic, illogical, cheaply sensational," expressed alarm at continued attempts to have him excluded from...
...Author, Born in Vienna in 1881, of rich Jewish parents, Stefan Zweig until the World War was more of a traveler than an author. His first popular work was an anti-War play, Jeremiah, produced in Switzerland to avoid German and Austrian censorship. He now writes to carry out a conscious literary program. Other translated works: Paul Verlaine, Emile Verhaeren, Romain Rolland, Passion and Pain, Invisible Collection, Conflicts, Adepts in Self-Portraiture, Joseph Fouché, Amok...
...reassembled last week; former Premier Andre Tardieu was pushed into the post he was far from anxious for, that of Minister of War; and M. Laval himself took on the duties of Foreign Minister as well as Premier. Suddenly the Surete-General clamped down a strict press censorship. International cable messages were delayed for hours. Though nothing drastic happened, there were numerous incidents in the week's news that might have been misinterpreted...
...airmailing this from Mexico City to lose no time in congratulating Mrs. Blaisdell on her censorship of "religion" as an implement of education. Had the minds of Edison, Franklin, Burbank and thousands of other original thinkers been sufficiently crippled by belief in and reliance on "divine power" and "life after death," they would have passed to the limbo of unaccomplishment with the rest of the orthodox millions...
Said Publisher Farrar: "It's a new kind of censorship to me." His two children, John Jr., 4½, and Alison, 2½, he admitted, kneel each night and say "Gentle Jesus, meek and mild...