Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...courts to make justice available to the poor as well as the coffee barons. He gave Brazil the 48-hour week, a minimum wage, pensions, vacations with pay. He also banned strikes, abolished Congress and founded the Estado Novo, an "authoritative democracy" complete with a fascist-type constitution, press censorship, and a home-grown gestapo. When the Nazis swept over Europe in 1940, Vargas proclaimed: "It is not the end of civilization :>ut the beginning, tumultuous and fecund...
...North, Central and South American editors & publishers met to organize a permanent Inter-American Press Association with the high-sounding goal of guarding "freedom of the press throughout America." But a more specific purpose soon emerged sharp and clear: it was to forge a weapon to fight press censorship in the Western Hemisphere, notably in Latin America. In a committee report that pulled no punches, the countries where censorship exists and the degree of press repression were ticked off. Peru, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and 13 other countries were all criticized for current or recent attempts to censor the press...
...would be cowardly." said the governor, "to take this [statue] down simply to appease certain people. If we start censorship, who will do the censoring?" Then, still thinking of November, he passed the buck to the building's architect, who had the nude taken down...
...issue no longer was whether the nude was artistically good, or morally bad (a good many citizens seemed to think it was neither). The issue now, trumpeted the committee, was censorship. One J. Robert Jones, a letter-to-the-editor writer, summed it up: "I am a citizen of New Mexico, a taxpayer and property owner," wrote Mr. Jones, "and I think that the work in question looks like hell. But principles are principles...
...controlled by the government. It is set up as a public corporation under a Royal Charter that is normally renewable every ten years. The Postmaster General, who controls all of Britain's communications, may prevent anything from being broadcast. But he has never exercised his right of censorship...