Word: censor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possibility that it would even begin to debate schedules before the closing of the special session. Yet Senators, unmindful or unworried, last week made little tariff progress, went instead down two attractive bypaths. One bypath was the issue of Philippine Independence (see p. 17). Another was the issue of censor ship, by U. S. Customs officials, of allegedly obscene books imported to U. S. shores...
...about the same time a clerk in the Ministry of Finance entered the round sum of two million drachmas ($26,000) in his ledger under the heading Secret Government: Expenditures. News organs throughout Greece were warned by the official censor to publish no account of the affair. Friends of Senator Gheka found him uncommunicative...
...this just goes to prove that the important thing about it all is the unimportance of minor details like these. The Marx brothers are distinctly the show, and by all means see them now for they may not be in these parts for a long time to come. The censor may even get them for making the audience laugh too much...
...after day, with infinite patience and good humor, he files despatches which cost his paper a great deal, and only occasionally contain really big news. By carrying something every day and ingratiating himself after long years with the Soviet government, patient Walter Duranty is able to get past the censor all the news of Russia that really matters...
...head of the Government has sometimes been suspected of wishing to control the color and "angle" of reports on his activities despatched by the newsgatherers assigned to "cover" him. For example, he had a personal, unofficial censor (George Barr Baker) to oversee what was written about him during his South American tour...