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National censorship

noun

Censorship under civil authority of communications entering or leaving of crossing the borders of the United States or its territories or possessions.

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"National censorship" Quotes from Famous Books

... enforced. New conditions require new laws. There may be loafing places on streets and in stores which are dangerous. The billiard halls may need a thorough moral cleaning and a moral man placed in charge. The public dance halls may need proper chaperonage. The moving pictures need state and national censorship to eliminate the careless suggestions leading toward both vice and crime. The homemaker must know under such circumstances how to stir public opinion, how to make use of her existing organizations, how to set on foot the various movements ...

— Vocational Guidance for Girls • Marguerite Stockman Dickson

... and other censors of certain cities. As Mr. W. Stephen Bush writes in The Moving Picture World: "A very small and a very short-sighted minority of motion picture manufacturers, together with occasional lapses of National Censorship," are responsible for the exceedingly silly and presumptuous system now ...

— Writing the Photoplay • J. Berg Esenwein and Arthur Leeds