Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Church deserves every opportunity to make its point of view clear to its parishioners and to the public at large. But enforcing widespread unofficial censorship by supra-legal means is certainly beyond the proper sphere of any particular organization or pressure group...
...Jordan, with censorship lifted, came the story of how 21-year-old King Hussein snatched control of his desert kingdom from under the noses of the Redlined leaders of the Palestinian Arabs, who outnumber his Bedouins two to one. It was a wild story that combined the dash of a Latin American army coup with the wile of an Arabian Nights adventure...
Last week the stag mags* were in the midst of a censorship battle that raged all the way from Boston to Los Angeles, from suburban mothers' clubs to the Supreme Court. In New York, where police in the past six months have seized some 2,000 copies of 15 different magazines under city obscenity laws, a publishing newsletter protested: "Never in the history of the magazine industry have the newsstands been flooded with so many borderline, semi-obscene and actually pornographic periodicals." Legislatures in ten states were considering bills that would make it illegal to distribute or sell...
...legal definitions of obscenity ineviably trap serious-intentioned publishers and writers in the censor's net. Last month district attorneys from 38 Pennsylvania counties met to "discuss new methods of combatting the obscene literature pouring into the state." but were anable to agree on any fair or workable censorship formula. Even churchmen do not agree that the stag magazines drive children to delinquency. The Rev. Owen McKinley Walton, executive director of Pittsburgh's Council of Churches, denounced them as "literary chloroform, deadening the moral and spiritual strength of our youth.'' But Unitarian Minister Irving R. Murray...
...newsman's sacred duty to beat the censor," says Jules Dubois. He has used carrier pigeons, outgoing tourists and elaborately coded telephone calls to smuggle out his dispatches. He was about to be deported from Guatemala for violating censorship in the civil war when Castillo Armas entered the city. Fortunately for reporters, Castillo Armas was an old friend: he had studied under Colonel-Instructor Dubois during World War II in the U.S. Army's command and general staff school at Fort Leavenworth. Castillo Armas at once gave newsmen the run of the wires without censorship...