Word: shortt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Precisely as extralegal and august as national cinema censorship in the U. S. is Britain's Board of Film Censors, a body whose president is paid $10,000 a year by the British film industry. Last month the Board's president, red-faced, intolerant Rt. Hon. Edward Shortt died. Last week the British cinema industry picked as president of the Board of Film Censors one of the most distinguished and worldly men in the realm, William George Tyrrell, Baron Tyrrell of Avon, holder of Britain's No. 1 diplomatic job, the Ambassadorship to France, from...