Word: censor
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There his son runs a press bureau, is engaged to the daughter of the dour government censor. At a testimonial dinner, Farnum flays the government for its bigotry and intolerance. At once he and his son are ordered to leave. The press bureau is raided, the son's library stripped. Farnum buttonholes his persecutors long enough to harangue them on freedom, progress, humanity, before he is fatally hit In the head with a brick. His speech, however, seems to have led his listeners to plan a more kindly government...
Parts of the letter are unprintable but the following are excepts which could get by the censor: 551 Fifth Avenue, Room 720, New York City, June 14th...
Timothy Trebitsch near Budapest in 1879. Going to England at 20, he tacked "Lincoln" on his name, became a Lutheran missionary, then an Anglican curate, then a Quaker. As secretary to a cocoa manufacturer he turned to politics, got elected an M. P. A censor during the War, Trebitsch-Lincoln proudly recounts that he was a spy for both sides. But when England tried and convicted him it was for forgery. In 1920 he was again a censor, this time in Berlin where he said he helped General Ludendorff in the Kapp putsch. Harried from nation to nation and everywhere...
...quantity since Jan. 30, 1933 is dramatic material. Kultur, first anti-Nazi play to appear in Manhattan, was an hysterical shambles. Birthright, the second, was little better. Easily best so far is The Shatter'd Lamp, written in England and whisked off the London stage by the censor after one performance. Races, the Theatre Guild's investigation of the same topic, was last week in rehearsal...
Food & Drugs. Rex Tugwell, bright young braintruster, has been anxious to get a bill passed to censor the labeling and advertising of foods, drugs and cosmetics. He was for months sure of the President's hearty support. However, Congress has not shown much interest. A big food & drug lobby is fighting the bill, and the President has not gone to bat for it. Its chances of passage are fading...