Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...duty of a newspaper to check everything it published, he replied that the papers have a special duty with respect to the Queen. He warned that foreign newsmen who ignored the agreement should not expect cooperation from the Dutch press. The issue, said Rooy, is one of "civilization," not censorship. The association then passed a resolution condemning the agreement, and mailed it to editors and top government officials...
From the bench, Wurmeling turned to the movie industry. "The average film." he said, "accents prostitution, eroticism and woman-chasing . . ." He proposed i) a "people's censorship." and 2) a boycott of films made by "errant .[Hollywood] actors . . . who announce they are getting divorces so as to be free to marry each other." The moviemakers screamed ("Terrorism . . . generalized slanting . . ."), but busy Wurmeling was undeterred. For one officially worried about the state of family life in postwar Germany, there were plenty of other problems to tackle: ¶With only 23 million men (many of them war-wounded) to balance...
...turn Egypt toward parliamentary rule. The timetable: in June, the election of a 250-man Constituent Assembly; in July, an Assembly meeting to ratify a new constitution; by January 1956, free elections for a new democratic Parliament. The R.C.C. said it will then fade away. As a starter, news censorship was lifted...
...Harding's first Postmaster General (1921-22); of a heart ailment; in his home town, Sullivan, Ind. Resigning as Postmaster General, he accepted Hollywood's offer to let him wipe clean the sin-filled screen (at $100,000 a year), forestalled a widespread public demand for state censorship. No czar, wily Will Hays became U.S. filmdom's No. 1 booster (and whipping boy), helped draw up prim production and advertising codes, closely regulated moviemaking from story idea to exhibition. After 23 years, he abdicated in 1945, turned the Hays Office over to Eric Johnston, went home...
Although the U.S. Supreme Court decided unanimously that state film censors had no business banning La Ronde (in New York) and M (in Ohio), only two members wrote an opinion on movie censorship in general (TIME, Jan. 25). Declared Justices Douglas and Black: all state film censorship is contrary to the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of speech. But this week, the problem of censorship seemed more muddled than before. Items...