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Cabled despatches, possibly tampered with by the Soviet Censor, have uniformly declared that Trotsky left Moscow in the passive presence of a crowd which merely collected at the station, sang Communist songs, and wailed, "Oh how sad!" as his train chuffed...
...trial for Anglomania of School Superintendent William McAndrew of Chicago (TIME, Oct. 17 EDUCATION) dragged on. The Mayor's censor of history books, Urbine J. ("Sport") Herrman, heavy-jowled theatre owner and yachtsman, continued to examine the contents of the Chicago Public Library (which Queen Victoria helped build) for pro-British propaganda. Public Librarian Carl B. Boden, President of the American Library Association, quailed before the mayoral authority, fearing for his $11,000 per annum job. But citizens forestalled by injunction a public burning of the books Mr. Herrman "suspected." The press ridiculed "Chicago's Dayton" and called...
...TIME, Oct. 3], that Consul General Curtis be requested to resign in the absence of an explanation, satisfactory to Mr. La Dow, of why he permitted himself to be photographed in the vicinity of that dread beverage-beer, it would be splendid to appoint Mr. La Dow a censor of the habits and morals of Americans traveling abroad. In performing the pious functions of that position, meticulously as his intense but individual patriotism would dictate, he could incidentally be charged with the authority to summarily dismiss those representatives of our Government abroad whose conceptions of loyalty and patriotism might conflict...
...Certainly I'm a regular editor of the Advocate," declared Essenz von Bierschaum, the Advocate parrot, when interviewed yesterday by a CRIMSON reporter, and emphasized her statement with a resounding phrase from her nautical past that the reporter felt forced to censor...
Unlike Manhattan, which keeps its art respectable by means of the criminal code, London has a personal censor-the Lord Chamberlain. When Potiphar's Wife was announced for London's Globs Theatre last week, the Lord Chamberlain, alert, notified the producers that those invidious passages in the Bible from which the play takes its name must not be incorporated in the dialog. Compliant, the producers deleted the passages, printed them on strips of paper slipped between the program leaves.* Even so, London was shocked at the play. There were purple passages (not Biblical); there was the actress, Jeanne...