Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...various shades of agreement and disagreement at the discussion of "Censorship in Boston" were The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Francis J. Lally, editor of the Boston Pilot, and Gerald A. Berlin, director of the Commission of Law and Social Justice of the New England Division of the American Jewish Congress...
Berlin generally agreed with Miss Hughes in her opposition to censorship and emphasized the inconsistency and poor execution of censorship laws. Msgr. Lally, however, noted the need for censorship by law when it does not come from within. He said that "human freedom is not free at all," giving an example of the green light which gives one person the freedom to cross the street, although a red light binds someone else...
Strong stated that in the last five years only one book has been removed from sale by due process of law and that the Watch and Ward Society has taken but one action to exercise censorship--to prevent the sale of pictures of nude men and women on the backs of playing cards...
...disagreement with censorship, Berlin included "book-burning," banning of certain books from U.S. posts overseas, and denying public places to "progressive" groups, as well as books, magazines, and plays objectionable to some people on moral grounds...
...Information Committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, "the newspapers should agree not to go into biological research if Kinsey will agree not to go into newspaper editing." Added the National Association of Science Writers in a wire to Kinsey: "Your current demand raises an issue of [censorship]. No self-respecting newsman can cover your address under the terms you lay down." No newsman did until Kinsey, facing a unanimous press boycott, changed his mind and let reporters cover his lecture as they do any other meeting, without any censorship...