Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wartime, U.S. newspapers printed a useful warning to their readers on many dispatches from abroad: "Passed by Censor." That warning has now virtually vanished from the daily U.S. press, but censorship abroad has not. Most U.S. readers, when they stop to think about it at all, realize that the news from Russia is openly censored. Fewer may know that open or indirect censorship is smothering the news in nation after nation, including some which loudly insist that they alone have true "freedom of the press...
...room fitted out with photocopy equipment, a desk in another room spread with copies of Government documents. Behind a door were a bellows-type suitcase and two briefcases packed with other papers-altogether close to 300 originals and copies of documents stolen from the Offices of Naval Intelligence and Censorship, G2, OSS, State Department and British Intelligence. A few of them were marked "Top Secret" and "Secret"; all of them were labeled for official scrutiny only...
According to Sargent Kennedy, Registrar, about a dozen students a term misread their exam schedules and show up in the right place at the wrong time, or vice versa. Most common misreading of the printed schedules seems to be the result of a sort of Freudian censorship, whereby the student replaces "9:15" by "2:15" in his sub-conscious, and never knows the difference...
...recent interview with General "Tacho" Somoza, William Forbis, TIME'S Central America correspondent, told the Nicaraguan dictator that in a report for TIME on censorship in Central America he had had to put Nicaragua at the bottom of the list. Somoza, who was himself the subject of TIME'S Nov. 15, 1948 cover story, insisted that "There's no censorship here." Forbis said the cable office apparently didn't know that...
...week, it was all Judge Jackson could do to defend himself and his mission. He plaintively insisted that 1) he would not pry into any individual's misbehavior; 2) he was against federal censorship of the movies; 3) he had warned Senator Johnson that he would have to keep in confidence anything he had learned during his past service in Hollywood. All he wanted, he pleaded, was to help the industry to cure itself of a weakness for commercial exploitation of its stars' private sins. Also, he favored a "constructive" approach to immorality, e.g., turning social workers loose...