Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corpus Christi Day (which exuberant Italians have always celebrated in the street with the romp and frolic of a Mardi Gras fête) the only Catholic observances last week were services in church. To their subdued congregations, priests distributed printed copies of utterances by the Holy Father which censorship kept out of the Italian press...
Herbert Bayard Swope, onetime executive editor of the late, muzzle-hating New York World, startled newsmen by his rigorous advocacy of wartime censorship and propaganda. He would put all publications under Federal license with a Secretary of Information in the President's Cabinet. Said...
...Just as raw materials, capital and men are conscripted or controlled, so must public opinion be dealt with in time of war. It must be organized and paraded under drillmasters. Censorship and propaganda are the agencies of domination. . . . Propaganda, however naive at times, shall proclaim our virtues, sublimate our aims, accentuate our successes, indict the vices of the enemy and minimize his achievements...
Advertising. General Charles McKinley Saltzman, chairman of the Federal Radio Commission, said that the Commission was helpless, under the Radio Act of 1927 which permits no governmental censorship of radio programs, to stem the tide of "excessive and nauseating advertising." Though British listeners hear no advertising, they must pay a government license tax. There is small doubt that the 15,000,000 U. S. owners much prefer a "sponsored program-a genteel, ladylike term for radio advertising," to a broadcasting...
...flustered, protested that he had been misunderstood, misreported. He explained that he had not meant to deny the existence of the fort but merely to state that he had never seen or heard of it because all of its "ill-equipped"' native defenders were killed and a strict news censorship prevailed at the time...