Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Libre" insurrection of 1895 which led to the blowing up of the Maine and U. S. intervention. Last week, as in 1895, the insurrectos were split up into dozens of little bands, raiding, ambushing, running away to raid again somewhere else. Last week as in 1895 a stiff press censorship was clamped down on war news. Foreign correspondents were not allowed to leave Havana and spent their time like the late Richard Harding Davis collecting news from cafe tables on O'Reilly...
...Doherty did not want to get control of the paper. In fact, he contracted to let 10% of his stock be without vote. What he wanted and got was the status of "special contributing editor," with the right to "insert as editorials anything that I think proper" without any censorship. He assumed personal responsibility for any libel suits he might cause, and the Journal-Post editors are entitled to dispute him in columns adjoining...
...This Cabinet aspires to merit the most ample public confidence through the establishment of a régime of strict legality with respect of the law and all guarantees." This included freedom of the press, the lifting of Chile's three month censorship...
...Secretary Joslin, the investigation was on. The President was disturbed at 15 news leaks within the past few weeks. Hereafter on the President's orders White House news would come only from "authorized official sources"- that is, the President or Secretary Joslin. That, retorted 'the newsmen, constituted censorship...
Next day Secretary Joslin tried to smooth things out by informing the Press: "This is not censorship. Any newspaper man has a perfect right to ask any employe at the White House any question he wishes. But just try to get any information...