Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...today's yardstick, this colonial industry was little more than a group of independent printers. Under rigid governmental censorship, Boston's books were either reprints of classical treatises or pious puritanical sermons. The colonial reader sought moral edification rather than information or casual entertainment...
People sometimes wonder why a publisher would want to be located in a city like Boston, notorious for its well-publicized censorship and stuffy morality. One editor summed up his answer by saying that in Boston he can take a long and objective view of the manuscript before him. "Away from the insularity of New York," he said, "the proximity to Madison Avenue's advertising agencies, and the 'faddishness' of the Big City, I can examine more carefully the ideas of an author. I can shut out the irrelavant and concentrate on what I am reading."Typical of an editor...
...Shut down the big mail-censorship operations in Buenos Aires' post office...
...Scene I. Tempers simmered on all sides-in Turkey, in Greece and on Cyprus. A small bomb exploded in the Turkish consulate in Salonika and triggered wholesale riots against Greek minorities in Istanbul, Izmir and Ankara (TIME, Sept. 19). At first, under martial law and strict censorship, much of the story of the riots' nature was suppressed by the government of Turkish Premier Adnan Menderes, who has a supposedly democratic regime but cracks down on free speech and free press with totalitarian ease. But by last week, from piecemeal reports, diplomatic dispatches and the tales of travelers from Turkey...
...Colombia, President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla put on a big show of lifting the government's press censorship, but actually clamped down with a "code of ethics" that banned all stories that stir up politics, "imply lack of respect" for him or for friendly nations, hurt the economy or simply cause disorder...