Word: censor
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...voting for Chinese General Ma Chan-shan, for Japan's recently assassinated "Peace Man," Junnosuke Inoye, and for late, great Japanese such as Prince Ito ("the Bismarck of Japan"). One jokester voted "Give us rice!" But the Government of the Old Fox felt so strong that its censor passed these little jokes. The Old Fox could say: "A vote for the Seiyukai hastens the return of prosperity," while the opposition could only mutter innocuously: "One cannot feed on a fictitious boom...
...George Michael Cohan song, the MacKaye masque, and 30 other Washingtonian items about the U. S. To members of Congress he distributed, for a trifle each, statuets reproduced from the Nolleken bust. To 1,000,000 schoolrooms he distributed a poster made from the Athenaeum portrait. As unofficial censor of the move to honor Washington, he endorses most of the commercial enterprises submitted to the Commission, suggests a fair price for Washingtonian matchboxes, fountain pen sets, Wedgwood china plates, lampshades, silhouets and plaques. The tire cover notion he rejected as unsuitable. Some of the Commission's own projects...
Colonial-"Earl Carroll's Vanities" almost unscathed by the censor...
...loans for diplomatic inspection began in 1922. Its pur pose then was to thumbscrew European nations into funding their War debts to the U. S. by denying them fresh credits until they had done so. When all funding was completed, the State Department continued to act as a fiscal censor with the idea of bridging the abyss between Big Business and U. S. foreign policy. While it contended that it did not pass on the security or merits of foreign loans, its method of reporting "no objection" diplomatically to them was often construed by bond salesmen as left-handed approval...
Last week all but two members of the present Italian Cabinet read in the papers that their period of uninterrupted fecund activity is about over, prepared to write and receive the usual letters. According to "unofficial" announcements in the Italian press (which were passed by the official censor) II Duce plans to reorganize his Cabinet early next month, dropping everyone except "The Twins...