Word: ban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make Chinese more virtuous (see above) is cocky Cantonese Admiral Chang Chi-ying. Not long ago he disrupted a new-style Cantonese custom, forbade mixed bathing, proclaimed the slogan "Feminine Curves Shall Not Be Seen By Men!" Last week rueful Cantonese prepared to observe a yet more obnoxious ban: "Mixed walking in public," decreed the Canton Government, "is not compatible with the old virtues and must cease...
...Brussels the indomitable tradesmen of the Belgian Licensed Victualers' Association calmly announced that they had had 100,000 posters printed and secretly distributed throughout Europe. Their purpose: to force the Belgian Parliament to lift the ban forbidding a licensed victualer to sell spirits or even keep a bottle in the house in case of illness. ''That prohibition is ruining our business." declared a spokesman for the Association. 'If we are to be ruined let all Belgium suffer too! If we can entirely eliminate the tourist trade Parliament is responsible...
...Roman Catholic could join the Knights of Columbus if he subscribed to Socialism or took part in the liquor business as bartender, brewer, distiller, liquor-maker's employe or gin-shopkeeper. At the 52nd annual convention of the K. of C. in Detroit last week the ban on Socialism stood, but the 279 delegates voted to relax the liquor rule. Henceforth a Knight may sell spirits, in sealed containers to be consumed off-premises...
...oldtime copperman, President E. Tappan Stannard of Kennecott, who works side by side with a onetime tool manufacturer, Harry O. King, NRA Divisional Administrator. When the copper market developed into a three-price affair-Blue Eagle, non-Blue Eagle, and regular export copper-President Stannard had to slap a ban on non-Blue Eagle copper which he extended for the second time last week. When scrap producers failed to agree on quotas which the code left to them to divide, Administrator King foisted scrap quotas of his own devising on the industry. Currently their toughest problem is to find buyers...
Turkey became the first firm ally of the Soviet Union and Jew Suritz crowned his work last autumn, when Dictator Kemal celebrated the tenth year of his republic. From Moscow an imposing delegation of Bolshevik bigwigs went to Ankara and. as a great exception to Dictator Stalin's ban on junketing, were permitted to take along their wives (TIME, Dec. 4). It was svelte Mme Suritz who turned the trick by having Paris gowns ready for the dowdy wives from Moscow and an expert modiste on hand to fit them. Under Dictator Kemal's critical eye, they shone...