Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indian assembly; 3) the Bombay stock exchange and other business houses closed for a day "in protest" when St. Gandhi's secretary was arrested; 4) Baron Irwin proclaimed that "civil disobedience . . . is rapidly developing . . . into violent resistance to the constituted authority"; 5) the Government clapped an official censorship on all the northwestern provinces, ordered evacuation of European women and children from Peshawar and other cities on the Afghan frontier...
...passing a resolution against a five-day week for publishing personnel; a resolution that each member make his own decision regarding the proposed increased price of Canadian newsprint (TIME, Dec. 23). Discussions: on the competition of radio as a medium of dispensing news; on the evils of censorship laws. Publisher Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times was made President of the Association...
Members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors foregathered in Washington last week for their perennial three-day meeting, heard a score of speeches about censorship, pressagentry. their duty in molding public opinion. On the evening of their last day they sat down to dinner with President Hoover, whose remarks, as is customary when a chief executive speaks before the A. S. N. E., were regarded as confidential...
Disguised in a coffee-coloured suit and a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles, the Vagabond will emerge from his Lowell House construction shake this morning for the first time in several days. Having obtained a Boston censorship list, he has been busily lining his corrugated iron den with the best of modern and classical authors in preparation for the Reading Period. However, his eager Public need not be alarmed; for, every other evening if the weather is good, he will furtively make his way through the dark Spring twilight, sidle along empty streets and longingly peer into dormitories crammed with...
What would U. S. citizens have read in their papers yesterday if editors knew that, beginning tomorrow, all U. S. newsorgans would be under iron censorship...