Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last spring's ban of the Swedish film "Miss Julie" from Sunday showings at the Brattle has brought court action by the theater attacking the constitutionality of the Massachusetts Sunday censorship...
Strike's End. Last week, under pressure from an outraged public and an alarmed government. Natsukawa gave up, wanly signed an agreement ending the 106-day strike. Natsukawa promised to observe union working hours, and to "decide rationally" the problems of mail censorship, dormitory restrictions and compulsory Buddhist ceremonies...
Some communities, opposed to the Oklahoma City and Houston-type ordinances because they are concerned about the effects of scattershot censorship, have turned to a better method of control. In Cincinnati, for example, a citizens' committee of businessmen, educators, clergymen and parents rates every comic book published. In Canton, Ohio, a mayor's committee started "Operation Book Swap," in two days collected 12,000 horror comic books, which were exchanged at the rate of ten to one for hard-covered books, e.g., Swiss Family Robinson, Treasure Island, Alice in Wonderland...
...Labor Statistics. Compared with the period 1935-39, adult ticket prices have risen 97%, 4% higher than last year. censorship production code. Permitted in future films are such expressions as "hell," "damn," "fanny," "nerts." Miscegenation "within the limits of good taste" is lawful grist for filmmakers. Even jokes about traveling salesmen and farmers' daughters are permissible, if properly bleached...
Last week, with most of the ring in jail, the government lifted censorship slightly, revealing that it had arrested 400 officers for "working in the interests of a foreign power." "Almost all ... have confessed to their crime of treason," added Teheran grimly...