Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...precisely known). Editor Count Dalla Torre weighs 186 Ibs. ; is blond, stocky, quick at gestures, intelligent but slow of mind. Of ancient Venetian lineage, he has been a practicing newspaper man nearly all his life. Sur rounded by Italy, he edits in a little isle of refuge from Fascist censorship, says anything he and the Pope pleases, but knows that if he goes too far copies des tined for subscribers in Italy will be .quietly destroyed by Il Duce's police. Newest thing in Italian journalism is a 16-page tabloid sheetlet published in a secret place, written...
...Reader Brander rest assured: TIME will explicitly report Senator Smoot's attack, if and when made, upon Senator Cutting's amendment to the Tariff Bill (to take literary censorship out of the hands of customs agents).—ED...
...Massachusetts Legislature should not be blamed too harshly for retaining the Blasphemy Law, the Book-Censorship Law, and others of like absurdity upon their books. Their action is obviously based on a well meaning desire to preserve these masterpieces of antiquity for the edification and amusement of posterity. This is indeed a quaint notion, but one likely to result in considerable confusion, for Massachusetts is in danger of becoming a large penitentiary with the legislators as wardens...
...that seems to be the difficulty--proper legislation--and also seems to be the only excuse for the existence of such societies as the Watch and Ward. An interesting development of this latest discussion is the fact that the book censorship law, and particularly that section now under fire, dates back to almost half a century before the Revolutionary War. Thus indeed are the sins of the Puritan Fathers visited even unto the seventh generation...
Looking very pained at such language in the Senate, Senator Reed Smoot who himself has been making a study of obscene foreign literature to support customs censorship (TIME, Jan. 6), arose and began: "Oh, Mr. President?...