Word: bannings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Height, 1948" (see cut). ¶An ad in the Miami Herald said: "Unborn child for adoption. Call 5-4955." ¶Washington's only legitimate theater, the National, closed its doors. Actors Equity Association had forbidden its members to play there after Aug. 1 unless the theater lifted its ban against selling seats to Negroes. The National refused. It will reopen next month as a movie house...
Protestants and Catholics seem as far from reunion as ever. Joint worship is still expressly forbidden by the Church of Rome.* Yet there are times and places in mid-20th Century when the instinct for unity is stronger than the ban. In last fortnight's issue of the Roman Catholic Commonweal, Father Hans A. Reinhold cited recent instances. Outstanding was the report of a young priest among war prisoners in the Soviet Urals...
...dollars, freight-rate increases, the $2,175,000,000 budget. All had been handled the easy way, by voting "yes" to the Cabinet's decisions. The high cost of living was talked about by everybody, then sidestepped; so was the touchy subject of Canada's ban on margarine...
Last week the Trois-Rivières Junior Chamber of Commerce denounced the ban on mixed bathing. Le Nouvelliste, ardent supporter of the church, assailed "the thoughtlessness of demoniac youth." The Knights of Columbus, the Catholic Centre, the Saint Jean Baptiste Society and the Society of Nocturnal Adoration all rallied to the bishop, ignored the fact that when the Archbishop of Quebec, Monsignor Maurice Roy, was Bishop of Trois-Rivières, he held that mixed bathing was none of the church's business...
...half an hour. They sang it over the phone to Producer Walter Lantz, whose animated cartoon hero Woody Woodpecker also uses the laugh, then whooshed it off to a publisher. Kay Kyser got it on wax just before James Caesar Petrillo's New Year's Eve recording ban. Tibbies and Idriss, still playing in the band on the Joan Davis show, stand to make $10,000 apiece from...