Word: bannings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...federal district court trooped legal representatives of Independent Producer Louis de Rochemont, who helped launch the "Negro-problem" movie cycle with his Lost Boundaries (TIME, July 4), and Film Classics, Inc., the picture's distributor. They asked for 1) an injunction against last summer's ban on the film by Atlanta censors (who found that it would "adversely affect the peace, morals and good order" of the city); and 2) a ruling that Atlanta's censorship laws violate the U.S. Constitution...
Capetown's anti-government Cape Argus sputtered indignantly over Klerksdorp's "incredible apostles of apartheid," derided their ban against "mixed traveling on man's last journey" as "departheid." Cried the Cape Argus...
...world's biggest gold buyer, the argument continued, the U.S. should raise its buying price to about $50 an ounce. Failing that, it should declare a free market in gold, i.e., drop the ban against citizens' buying, selling or owning gold, and cancel the requirement that miners sell only to the Federal Government. Producers confidently felt that freeing gold would boost the price, since it is now selling for as high as $70 an ounce in the free gold marts of India, China, France and more than a dozen other nations...
...Waters said the ban has interfered with the institution's mother-and-child program and "it is bad for the adolescent girls under 21, of whom there are 80 in the institution...
...Some Southern cities, through their police departments, also ban films that take a sympathetic view of Negroes. Recent example: Lost Boundaries, banned in Memphis and Atlanta...