Word: bans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Laborites were annoyed. They instituted negotiations with the police with a view to getting the ban removed, but if they are unsuccessful they will, according to one laborite, "do it anyway...
...France, the Senate passed a bill, now under consideration in the Chamber of Deputies. The bill, sponsored by M. Biovin-Champeaux, calls for the complete abolishment of all signs marring scenery along railroads and highways within three years, and includes in the ban, signs on house walls. The City of Paris is considering a measure for the abatement of the electric sign nuisance, particularly in the neighborhood of the opera...
Other changes announced include a return of the "black shoe" era for Freshmen. This ban forbidding Freshmen to wear tea shoes had been lifted by the first 1924 Senior Council which was recently voted out of office after it had abolished the annual "Flour Picture" and various other sacred college institutions...
...Grandjean took a pinch of snuff-and sneezed. She said her husband remarked: "It is ridiculous to use snuff at your age. Why not leave that for old people?" Retorted she: "So that's what you think?" And, picking up a revolver, she shot her ban man dead. "He made me so mad that I killed him unconsciously," she concluded to the police...
...however, is the fact that Fascist brutalities in killings, burnings, floggings have alienated a number of Italians. Popular Party. The so-called Popular Party is Catholic and is the most recent of all political parties in Italy. It came into existence in 1919, when Pope Benedict XV removed the ban on Catholic political activity, and it has ever since been a growing power in Italian politics. The Italian Catholics, with the full approval of the Vatican, stood for land reform, universal suffrage, proportionate representation, Catholic education; and Fascismo, in order to secure clerical support, adopted most of the Popular program...