Word: ban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Celebrating their dual victory over Yale, the Varsity and Freshman soccer teams will hold their second annual ban qnet at the Harvard Club of Boston on Tuesday evening. December 14, Howle Michael, captain of the Varsity eleven, announced last night...
...film about the horrors of concentration camps. The picture might have been spurlos versenkt itself had not worried Director Irwin Esmond-of N. Y. State's Education Department (Motion Picture Division) called it "inhuman, sacrilegious and tending to incite to crime." New York censors promptly banned it, almost as quickly reversed their ban after the title was changed to Beasts of Berlin, some 67 feet were cut out of the film. Soon in other States bans and okays flew as thick as autumn leaves. By last week New Yorkers, Pennsylvanians and the citizens of Detroit, Mich, might...
...attended the meeting, and went home singing the Star-Spangled Banner. The two incidents were widely separated in space and degree; yet both are part of a pattern of hysteria being woven around us. The vigilante attack on a minority speaker is not without precedent in Detroit; Harvard's ban on a minority speaker is a new departure in Cambridge. But the most startling aspect of Harvard's decision is the frailty of its excuse. Browder has been indicted but has not been convicted, and it is still American doctrine that a man is innocent until proved guilty. The reverse...
Likely reason for the ban on Look: it reprinted phony atrocity pictures of World War I to remind people how war spirit was whipped up. This might come under the head of reports "likely to prejudice the recruiting, training, discipline or administration . . . of His Majesty's forces...
Likely reason for the ban on Social Justice: in recent issues it fulminated against "international gold-capitalists," defended totalitarian economy, espoused the Nazi claim that Athenia was sunk by the British...