Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pained squawk that could be heard from Miami to Moscow. The paper not only felt entitled to its correspondent's full services but feared that its investment in setting up Moscow coverage would be jeopardized if the Russians got the notion that Norton was breaking censorship. The Herald had already run the first installment. But after the Sun called the Miami paper, the series vanished, just as completely as if it had been bottled up by the Russian censor himself...
...which still supports the death penalty, felt that the memoirs made grisly grist for foes of capital punishment, who are now pushing their bill in the House of Lords. Under the Official Secrets Act, the Home Office demanded the right to censor the stories. When the paper defied the censorship in one installment, the government threatened to prosecute at the next violation...
...Complaints pour in daily, blasting NBC for such sins as undermining the language by billing the perry como show in lower-case letters, and subverting the nation by pointing out in Biographies in Sound that George Washington was not perfect. But Helffrich has found that the principal areas of censorship trouble lie in 1) racial hysteria, 2) obvious salaciousness, 3) excessive violence and 4) irresponsible slaps at mental illness...
Their proposals, which were voted down by narrow margins, included censure of State Senator John E. Powers and other Democrats for their civil rights records, abolition of the Massachusetts Commission on Communism, and an attack on Attorney General George Fingold's recent "censorship drive...
...with a professional interest was Margaret Aitken, who doubles as a columnist for the Toronto Telegram. Tory Aitken pointed out that some of the U.S. magazines are not matched by any comparable publication in Canada and that the government, by whittling them down, would be imposing "a form of censorship." Protested Margaret Aitken: "I resent government interference with my reading matter...