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Tips from the Mayflower
Anderson, Paul Y. | January 23, 1929 issue

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U.S. President Herbert Hoover has maintained a censorship on all news dispatches filed from the battleships Maryland and Utah during the trip to South America and return. In order to have an expert censor, with war-time experience, he took along his intimate friend, George Barr Baker. The twenty correspondents on board were required to submit all their stories to Baker, and nothing could be sent until it had received Baker's written confirmation. Passages were deleted, dispatches were held back, changes were "suggested" to the writers, and broad hints were conveyed that it would be better to leave certain subjects alone.

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CENSORSHIP; HOOVER, Herbert, 1874-1964; PRESIDENTS -- United States; BATTLESHIPS; UNITED States -- Politics & government; UNITED States
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