Word: ban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hardest hit by the Bank Night ban was the Balaban & Katz chain of 39 Chicago theatres whose Bank Night profits are estimated at $60,000 a week. First move of Balaban & Katz was to discontinue Bank Night in all their theatres...
...masks at the rate of 2,000,000 per month will soon be available for distribution free to the 45,000,000 subjects of King Edward in the United Kingdom "in the event of an emergency." The Home Secretary Sir John Simon, speaking in behalf of his bill to ban the wearing of "political uniforms" (TIME, Nov. 16), told the House with an owlish air of knowing more than he could reveal: "Information has reached me which goes to show that both in the case of Fascist and Communist organizations, their funds have been supplemented from abroad...
...brush the problem aside on the ground that part of what appeared to be foreign investment was in fact buying by U. S. citizens through foreign banking houses, whose margins are lower than those demanded in the U. S. But discussed with perfect seriousness was the possibility of a ban on importations of investment capital, something which no nation has ever seen fit to do in all history...
Theodora Goes Wild (Columbia). When the Lynnfield Literary Society met to ban a best-seller named Sinned Against, pretty Theodora Lynn (Irene Dunne) cast her vote with the rest. No one in Lynnfield knew that, under the nom de plume of Caroline Adams, she had written the book herself. Until its illustrator, Michael Grant (Melvyn Douglas), who had met Theodora on one of her rare trips to New York, arrived in Lynnnfield, there seemed no danger that her double life would be exposed. By good-humored blackmail, Grant compelled Theodora to persuade her maiden aunts to give...
...King Richard III, frog-marched through the streets of London to be reviled by the populace and finally imprisoned for what was declared to be the crime of "committing adultery with His Late Majesty." The Lord Chamberlain, who acts as Britain's play censor, has no power to ban productions in such little theatres where entrance is supposed to be ''by subscription to members only...