Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discriminatory tax ... on the movement of ideas." Toronto's Tory Telegram said it was a "vicious" tax that "should cause concern in every editor's office." The Liberal Victoria Times called it "a discriminatory and authoritarian measure," the Vancouver News-Herald saw it as "a stride toward censorship," and the London Free Press, taking note of a similar affair on the other side of the border (see below), pointed out that "the same government which protested to the U.S. against discriminatory action against a Canadian brewery in Maryland is now discriminating against reading material from abroad...
...suspected Communists after a similar ruckus last year (TIME, May 2). But this time the museum held fast. It also got the backing of the Dallas Morning News ("The issue is not the allegiance or sympathies of the artists over a period of years, but actually one of censorship") and Dallas Merchant Stanley Marcus, who refused to withdraw as a local sponsor of the show...
...this state has the power of censorship," said Wilson. He is a director of the Council whose members publish ninety per cent of the pocketbooks sold in the country...
Representative Wilfred S. Mirsky '29, a member of the legislative Committee on Legal Affairs, agreed with Wilson that censorship may only be applied through regular court proceedings...
...Public officials, however, have gradually tried to assume the right to censor," he stated. Mirsky has repeatedly opposed measures planning to establish censorship outside the courts...