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Censor Wilkinson has had his troubles with the March of Time from its inception. Overruling the March of Time's claim that, as journalism in celluloid, it must be as free to handle controversial news as the Press, Watchdog Wilkinson has on various occasions removed from the British March of Time shots of German Nazis persecuting Jews, members of the French People's Front demonstrating against the Fascist Croix...
...income taxes an extra ?5,500,000; in customs and excise duties an extra ?8,500,000. Servicing of the national debt had cost ?12,500,000 less than expected, a windfall promptly plowed back into amortization. The only bad news was that Britain's role of watchdog in the Mediterranean during the Italo-Ethiopian War had cost her an unexpected...
...lkischer Beobachter chortled, "His departure is a gain for the pacification of Europe and exorcises the baneful Versailles spirit he fostered. Lord Tyrrell was a man of yesterday who simply could not understand that a new era had dawned." Last week, on being informed of his new job, Watchdog Tyrrell said: "I go to the pictures perhaps once, perhaps twice a week. . . . Why, I saw one last night-very good, too. I have no particular taste; in fact I like most of them. There is a very good film at the Empire. Claudette Colbert in She Married Her Boss...
...reported named a Cardinal in pectore-secretly "in the Pope's heart" (TIME, March 20, 1933). Others: Most Rev. Carlo Salotti, secretary of the Congregation for the Propagation of Faith (missions); Monsignor Nicola Canali, assessor of the Congregation of the Holy Office (the Church's watchdog in matters of faith and morals); Monsignor Domenico Jorio, secretary of the Congregation of the Sacraments; Monsignor Massimo Massimi, dean of the Sacred Roman Rota (the Church's trial court); Monsignor Carlo Cremonesi, papal Grand Almoner; Monsignor Vincenzo La Puma, secretary of the Congregation of the Affairs of Religious; Monsignor Frederico...
...does not expect much from the Hearst press. Its self-appointment to the position of "official watchdog of America"; its alacrity in "climbing on the band-wagon" as soon as the trend of any public issue is divined and its strict attention to circulation together with an equal disregard for ethics or facts have all given the Hearst press a very definite place in the opinion of thinking Americans. That place is not very high...