Word: bannings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Near the end of last year, the colony had ten cows; 50 of its 320 acres had been cleared for vegetable gardens and 300 orchard trees had been planted. The elders met, decided to lift the ban on children. In July, husky, unmarried, 36-year-old Florence Berikoff bore the first child, a boy. It was, said Colony Spokesman Joseph Podovinikoff, "the first free motherhood" based on 400-year-old Doukhobor principles...
...ostensible reason for the strike was wages (the printers had asked for a boost of $14.50 a week), but the real issue was Randolph's defiance of the Taft-Hartley Act ban on closed-shop clauses in contracts. Randolph dropped a formal contract, asked publishers to agree to "conditions of employment" continuing the prized closed shop that Chicago's printers first won 50 years ago. In many cities, publishers agreed; in Chicago, they refused...
...When the Western powers lifted their ban on political parties in Germany, Adenauer emerged as one of the founders of the Christian Democratic...
...Forest, who sometimes wonders why he ever invented radio's audion tube, made a birthday wish: that the FCC enforce its ban on "those mediocre giveaway programs" and, while going about it, slap one on soap operas...
...Sunday punch at radio's gaudy giveaway shows which have been showering the U.S. with more than $185,000 in prizes every week (and thereby holding an audience estimated at over 30 million). After a year's study, FCC voted 3 to 1 last week to ban giveaways from the air, effective...