Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Appalled at the prospect of a flood of dirty foreign literature washing up on clean U. S. shores, Senator Smoot made a collection of volumes recently seized by the Customs agents and during his Christmas holiday pored over improper paragraphs to amass arguments for the retention of censorship (TIME, Jan. 6). His threat to read aloud blush-provoking passages, if necessary, helped to pack the Senate galleries last week. After twelve hours' fervent debate the Senate did reverse its position, did reimpose a modified form of Customs censorship, but without a public smut-reading by Senator Smoot or anyone...
Aflame with zeal, Senator Smoot was about to ask the Senate to reverse itself on Customs censorship of obscene books...
Authors Morris Ernst & Pare Lorentz here put forth a vigorous polemic against the present apparatus of cinema censorship. Say they: though the National Board of Review does not officially censor, merely "suggests" changes, recommends certain cinemas, withholds recom- mendation from others, in practice it amounts to a federal censorship board. Official state censorship boards exist in six states: New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Kansas, Virginia, Ohio; the Pennsylvania board is the most severe, the Virginia most lenient...
Walter Prichard Eaton '00 will speak tonight at 8 o'clock at the Women's Republican Club on 46 Beacon Street. Eaton, a director of the Cambridge School of Drama, will discuss "Censorship by Authority...
...Shakespeare for a time this autumn, but hurriedly let him drop and went back to the talkies. But perhaps the dominant mid-west will mark up another triumph. It suffered an apparent defeat a year or two ago, when the Chicago Tribune, in the early throes of Boston's censorship campaign, suggested that Harvard should be moved brick by brick, out to where the art begins. Instead, it was found more convenient, and nearly as effective, to send the light and learning cast. Boston is now culturally a province of Chicago; but its cod and its censors are still...