Word: bans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enrollment of freshmen at the University of Michigan being two hundred less than that of last year, the inference has been made that the decrease is the result of that university's ban on automobiles. The New Student quotes President Little of Michigan as replying, if the decrease were due to the automobile regulation he was glad of it. Presumably his satisfaction arises more from confidence in the wisdom of the rule than from pleasure in its apparent result...
...present there exists a ban against lending France money, a course of action tacitly approved by Wall Street. But it was thought possible that U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon may recommend that U. S. President Coolidge and the U. S. State Department modify U. S. policy to permit a refunding loan...
...first of these lectures concerns a period and an event well known to everyone. The triumphant return of "Bonnie Prince Charlie", the lifting of the ban on laughter, the revival of the theatre and the gay court life form a delightful story which can bear a great many re-tellings. The Vagabond wants to hear this story again and he also wants to find out something more about the other side of the picture--the secret negociations between Charles and Louis XIV and their unnatural alliance against the Dutch...
...customs receipts had increased, he reported, under U. S. supervision. Meanwhile at the Haitian border, Negro gendarmes under the command of U. S. onetime marines, waited in vain to arrest U. S. Senator King who announced he would not try to enter the country over President Borno's ban (TIME, March...
...reasons offered by Princeton authorities for their ban on student-driven and owned automobiles, one is paradoxical and the other open to question. The fact that there has been a "frequency of fatal accidents" in Princeton is not common to that town alone. The law, by establishing an age limit which happens to be under that of the average undergraduate, has apparently given the student a legal right to drive a car. Therefore in forbidding automobiles at Princeton on the count of reckless driving, the university appears to take the stand that pursuit of learning and not tender years...