Word: bannings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columbia (daily) Spectator said, "The pressure of the un-American Activities Committee has already begun to take effect on the Columbia campus." The student council, Americans for Democratic Action, and the American Veterans Committee asked that the ban be revised...
...Brooklyn, as at Columbia, opponents of the ban were quick to point out that Lyman Bradley had given a speech several weeks before, under the auspices of two Brooklyn College groups...
...official statement from the Princeton student council asked that "no uniform ban on parties over any weekend should be imposed. The council complained especially that it had not been consulted in the matter before a decision was made...
...Larsen, President of TIME Inc., in Buenos Aires on a trip, talked to President Perón and asked when we could expect the ban on TIME to be lifted. The Chief of State expressed his sympathetic understanding of TIME'S problems in Argentina and hoped "that bureaucratic blocks might soon be removed...
What set McCarran off was a U.N. debate over restoring full diplomatic recognition to Spain. The Soviet bloc wanted the two-year-old ban continued; most of the Latin Americans wanted it lifted, and so did some U.S. delegates. But Delegates Eleanor Roosevelt and John Foster Dulles were for continuing the ban. Result: the split U.S. delegation was told to abstain from voting...