Word: ban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON--The possibility that President Roosevelt's ban against belligerent submarines entering United States territorial waters will be extended to armed merchant vessels was projected today when Secretary of State Cordell Hull revealed that the problem is being studied. He declined to elaborate...
...tableau for which all Washington waited-the moment when bumbling Senate Leader Alben Barkley escorted down the aisle, to be sworn in as Junior Senator from Kentucky, the very man who opposed him in the bitterest of all 1938 primary fights, the fight which aroused national demand for a ban on politics in the WPA, thus resulted in the Hatch Act. Till next August's primary, Kentucky's Happy Man may wear the toga, if not the dignity, of a U. S. Senator...
...nerves seemed to be standing the blackout strain of bumps and boredom fairly well. A. Hitler, an Austrian by birth who spent his youth in Vienna, cheered up the former Austrian capital by putting it back on a basis of bright lights and tuneful night life. The ban on dancing was lifted, Vienna cabarets sprang to life, the street lights were on and last week the Viennese, incorrigibly light-hearted and easygoing, even tore from their windowpanes the dark paper pasted on when the Führer ordered blackouts...
...condition that he will not deliver the men, arms or supplies to any warship. 10) If the President finds any ship of any country has violated such clearance, he may intern that ship in a U. S. port for the war's duration, 11) The President may ban the entry of any foreign state's submarines or armed merchant vessels into U. S. territorial waters at any time...
Conductor Harrison's tentative tuning-up brought hisses from his fellows. Crackled perfect Wagnerite George Bernard Shaw (in a telegram to London's Daily Herald): "Wagner, Beethoven and all Huns were banned at the Promenades in August 1914. The result was no audiences. Henry Wood* then announced an all-Wagner program. Result: house crammed. Tell Harrison try Sibelius. Shaw." Clacked England's No. 1 woman composer, bony, cigar-smoking, fedora-hatted Dame Ethel Smythe: "I can hardly believe that Julius Harrison can be banning Wagner because of the Nazis. If art is to be affected by anything...