Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...easy to point to the futility of restrictive measures throughout the nineteenth century and to conclude that Germany's move is ill-considered. Complete civil liberty, however, has never been accepted as an administrative maxim. In this country, federal customs restrictions, state prohibitions, provide for censorship and deny the right of free meeting. Unless the application of Germany's decree is extremely rigorous, the Fatherland need not be ranked with Italy and Russia as a post-war despotism...
Whether the action springs from the dissatisfaction of the trustees alone, or whether the officers of the University have taken this means of restricting publication, is not known, and probably never will be learned. Whatever authoritative hand is responsible for this latest move, following a period of graduate censorship, it is one which all undergraduates and past Harvard men will join in denouncing. If there is one tradition which Harvard has adopted as final and permanent, it is that absolute freedom be given to all members of the University in their speaking, writing, and thinking...
England maintains in India at all politically crucial periods a continuous and rigid press censorship so that authoritative news from behind the scenes is most welcome. For that reason the lecture at the Union this evening on "India and England--What of the Future?" by the Indian editor and statesman, Syud Hossain, is most fortunate as well as timely...
...authority from the White House to the Capitol; 3) Unemployment insurance; 4) co-ordinate State and Federal job agencies (the vetoed Wagner bill); 5) repeal of the War- time espionage act; 6) a law against Federal wiretapping; 7) admission of Cabinet members to Congressional debates; 8) removal of postal censorship over the Press; 9) no more deportations of political refugees...
...present state of dramatic criticism he finds to be rather lamentable, censorship stupid and audiences daily growing duller. Yet there is O'Neill who will save the theatre from complete disintegration because he has "size." As for Barry, Kelley, Green, and Howard, Mr. Nathan disposes of them as a "dramatic barbershop quartette." In Vincent Lawrence, on the other hand, he finds the most gifted of present day comic-dramatists. From the rest," . . . we get the current liberal smear of pseudo-profound poppycock dealing with burnt-cork Spinozas, flapper Margaret Sangers, Strindbergian street-walkers and doughboy Bismarcks...