Word: ban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fighting all the way, the government of square-jawed little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss continued to oppose the relentless growth of Hitlerism in Austria last week. Fortnight ago came that decree so familiar to the last years of republican Germany: a ban on the wearing of political uniforms. Austrian Nazis promptly rushed to second-hand clothing shops and bought up all the old silk hats in sight, on the assumption that there could be no law against the wearing of a Cylinder, emblem of bourgeois respectability. For a few happy hours Viennese Nazis flaunted battered toppers above their sport suits until...
...enforcement of a rule which as a general principle is irreproachable, the Masters have gone to extreme lengths, laying a strict ban on inter-House transfers. The result has been a hardship imposed upon a considerable number of men. If a resident has good reasons for wanting to move to another House, and if no one is inconvenienced by the transfer, it is foolish to allow vague conceptions of House spirit to stand in the way. In a year of depression it argues a certain stubbornness for Masters to refuse permission for inter-House transfers to men who can secure...
...priest, who murmured a blessing and placed a barley wafer in Juanita's mouth." The Somerville schoolmen called this "sacrilegious . . . offensive . . . un-American . . . ridiculing the great central act of worship of a great religious denomination." Other Massachusetts cities-Cambridge, Lowell, Lawrence, Everett, Fall River-joined in the ban, were followed by New York City...
...Confirmed the promotions of 816 Army, Navy and Marine Corps officers but declined to lift the Democratic ban on executive nominations by the President. ¶ Defeated (48-10-23) a motion by Connecticut's Bingham for the immediate consideration of the 3.2% beer bill received from the House (see below). ¶ Adopted a conference report on a bill to free the Philippines ten years after the adoption of a new Island constitution; sent it to the House for concurrence. ¶ Passed a House bill to merge Washington's two street car systems. ¶ Passed a bill by South...
LANG (Andrew) Ban and Arriere Ban...