Word: bannings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After ephedrine, what? Benzedrine, said the Maryland Racing Commission. Evidence: the saliva test on Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark's Cosey, winner of the Fairmount Steeplechase Handicap at Pimlico. Result: Mrs. Clark's stable, top steeplechase money-winner of the year, suspended pending hearing-the third ban for doping horses handed out by the Maryland Commission this season...
Furthermore, its ban on election contributions by unions had not prevented the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee from helping to swing the 1944 campaign by spending its own money in the primaries, acting as "broker" for contributions by individual union members in the election...
...parade of scientists who took exception to the May bill's security provisions passed before Congressional committees. Others made statements to the press. Columbia's Dr. Harold C. Urey discoverer of heavy hydrogen, favored a worldwide ban on the manufacture of atomic weapons. Dr. Herbert L. Anderson, who worked on the bomb, feared that the May-Johnson bill's security provision would frighten scientists away from all nuclear research. Famed Dr. Arthur Holly Compton had similar objections. The scientists' main worries were...
From Washington came the grim prediction of housing experts that the worst is yet to come. With demobilization rapidly increasing, the exodus of unemployed war workers from crowded industrial centers had not yet begun. The situation, said the NHA, will grow steadily worse until midwinter; the end of the ban on private building will have little effect before...
...parents and educators looked for causes and solutions, Local 555 of the (C.I.O. ) Teachers Union cited these words from Geoffrey Chaucer as the kind of thing that was at least partly to blame. On the rounds that such writings violated "the fundamental conceptions of Americanism," the Union demanded a ban in all new York schools of the famed Canterbury Tales...