Word: bannings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...division commander, ended up with four armies under him. His armies delivered the final knockout to the Nazis' Afrika Korps in three weeks, knifed through Sicily in jig time and had the Germans reeling out of France in less than a month. Ernie Pyle broke his own ban against writing about Army brass to eulogize this general with the schoolmasterish manner, "so unanimously loved and respected by the men around him and under him." One of his officers summed up Bradley to Pyle: "He has the greatness of simplicity and the simplicity of greatness...
...husband would have to watch himself, too. The boss of the Hungarian tailors' cooperative recently called on Hungarian shops to ban "all men's suits of American style . . . and American-style neckties...
Affirmative No. But the ban on "hard" liquor was one rule radio had never broken. In 1939 the 17th Annual Convention of the National Association of Broadcasters had even written it into its official standards of practice: "Member stations shall not accept for advertising [any] spiritous or 'hard' liquor." True to their pledge, the networks said no to Schenley. But their refusal somehow sounded as if they wished they could...
...opera to die. I'd sing her roles myself first. Our culture is at stake." He calle'd on the War Memorial board to relent. The American Legion's national headquarters wired that it had nothing against Flagstad. Still the dogged board refused to raise its ban...
...another KLM Constellation,* they had sat out the ordeal of a dangerous, 3,200-mile over-water flight, made necessary by India's pro-Indonesian ban on landings by Dutch aircraft. For the trip back, Foreign Editor Charles Gratke of the Christian Science Monitor cabled Prime Minister Pandit Nehru and got permission for the newsmen to stop at Calcutta and Bombay, with a side jog north to New Delhi. At the Indian capital, they found Nehru too busy for a press conference. So most of the newsmen went shopping, bought jewelry and Kashmir shawls to take home to their...