Word: ban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dignity's sake the President last fortnight laid a ban on candid camera portraits of himself (TIME, May 13). For time's sake he followed up that order last week with an edict against further portraits in oil. In Washington, Nicolas Richard Brewer, 77-year-oldster who painted the President few months ago, observed: ''The President is a very excellent subject if he behaves himself. The trouble is he jumps around too much...
...York's Senator Wagner, who had also defied the Coughlin ban, he said simply, "Well, we're going on to New York two weeks from tonight...
...adolescence, with special attention to his love affairs. Translated into English three years ago, it was passed by the Federal Censor but set upon by many a guardian of local morals. Last week a New York City court ruled that Novembre is not "objectionable literature," refused to ban it. Said Magistrate Jonah Goldstein: "The criterion of decency is fixed by time, place, geography and all the elements that make for a constantly changing world. . . . The practice of bundling, approved in Puritan days, would be frowned upon today. . . . In 1906 the play Sappho was suppressed because the leading lady was carried...
...something-for-nothing instinct- though some companies make a tidy profit on their premiums by requesting cash along with wrappers, box tops, coupons and other evidences of consuming interest. In periods of stiff competition premium promotion shaves close to outright price-cutting, and a strenuous effort was made to ban premiums in XRA codes. But the premium makers succeeded in keeping no-premium clauses out of all except the Bakers and Oil Codes, are currently thriving. Another boon that has helped loft premium sales in the past two years from $250,000,000 to $400,000,000 annually is radio...
...Refinancing on this scale," said Secretary Morgenthau, "has the quality of high adventure." And reminding the country of Britain's great War-loan refunding program, which included a six-month ban on new private capital issues and a purple appeal to public patriotism, he declared: "Here we have handled this same transaction so easily, and in such a commonplace manner, that many people have undoubtedly been unaware of its nature or significance...