Word: ban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unannounced by the Argentine Government and vigorously denied by its representatives in the U. S., an unofficial ban on U. S. goods has prohibited the majority of importers from bringing U. S. products into Argentina since the first of the year. Behind this prohibition many observers detected the heavy hand of John Bull. Because she buys from Argentina far more than she sells to her, Britain has always been high in Argentina's favor. The U. S. (except when the 1935-37 drought necessitated unusual imports of Argentine grain) ordinarily buys less from Argentina than she sells her, does...
...cohort will haunt the bowels of the vessel to thwart the advent of stowaways. Anyone apprehended without proper credentials will promptly be compelled to walk the plank, with an additional charge of twelve dollars." . . . Washington U's Varsity Ball committee last week issued an "anti-strapless evening gown ban" for the coming promenade. Said the chairman, "If any girl appears at the ball in one of those terrific creations the committee at the door will see she dons a pair of old-fashioned suspenders." The Cornell Junior Week chairman promptly sent a telegram to Washington U., extending "a cordial invitation...
When the Freethinkers' congress (first to be held in England in 50 years) was announced last April. Lord Glasgow and 70 M. P.s unsuccessfully backed a Blasphemy Bill especially designed to outlaw it. The Home Secretary was petitioned to ban it. Estimates of the amount of Moscow gold backing the "atheists" ranged from 150,000 to 14,000,000 rubles. Arthur Cardinal Hinsley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, organized a March of Atonement in which 150,000 Catholic men would walk this week from Southwark to Westminster Cathedral. Said he: "The religious leaders of this land cannot be held...
Susceptible Mr. Downey will be opposed for the Senate in November, incomplete returns indicated, by Republican Philip Bancroft, 57, an American Legionnaire and lawyer (Harvard), son of famed His torian Hubert Howe Bancroft. For 20 years well-to-do, wavy-haired Lawyer Ban croft has interested himself in raising pears and walnuts across the Bay from San Francisco. By his activities in Associated Farmers of California, which fought unionization of farm workers, he has earned the enmity of Labor. He has urged that to obtain local Relief, "Californians" be required to prove five years' residence; for old age pensions...
Although KQV ceased broadcasting out-of-town games early in May, its continued airing of home games forced the ball club last month to lift its ban and allow to its sponsors the games KQV was pirating. In Federal district court, KQV, still brash, explained that it had rented space in a building overlooking the ball park, argued that it had a perfect right to broadcast what it saw from its own property. Promptly the Pirates raised a canvas screen to shut off KQV's knothole. To plug the knothole tight, last week Judge F. P. Schoonmaker ruled that...