Word: bannings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kill, Not Cure. Of Taft's 27 other changes, all designed to meet labor's criticisms, one of the most important would continue the ban on closed shops but permit employers to give unions priority on jobs, thus opening the door to the hiring halls supposedly locked up by the Taft-Hartley Act. There would still be bans on mass picketing and jurisdictional strikes, but the ban on secondary boycotts would be slightly relaxed. The new Taft bill would also require management as well as union bosses to sign non-Communist affidavits ; lift Taf t-Hartley...
Inalienable Right. In Ilocos Sur Province, P.I., officials protested that the recent ban on hip-swinging dances violated "Freedom of Locomotion...
...publication of her father's biography, which she herself had ordered written. The author, the Earl of Birkenhead, who had put in three years on the 160,000-word manuscript, said: "We had disagreed" on certain conclusions drawn from facts, "but I did not know she planned to ban it entirely." Said she: "It's my own affair and I do not wish to answer questions about...
...cannot answer the questions on your postcard about Communist teachers properly by a simple "yes" or "no." I do not see how we could enforce a ban on all Communist teachers, unless all teachers are to be investigated by the FBI; this seems to me impossible, and it would be intolerable if it were possible. Making all teachers take an oath of loyalty would be most objectionable, from my point of view, and it will not keep out the Communists, who will swear falsely without batting an eye-lash...
...Catholic Power" worthy of wide circulation is that most Americans are unaware of the extent of the Church's success in this effort at control. (One example of such success is that the Church was able to force many boards of education,--including New York City's--to ban "The Nation" from public school libraries because it printed a series of articles by Blanshard, the foreruners of "American Democracy and Catholic Power," which attacked the Church's role in American life...