Word: bans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fumed Mr. Girdler: "If the Chairman will remove the ban, I'd like to answer that one as it ought to be answered...
...A.F.M. locals assembled in Louisville for their national convention, they began to put their case before the nation. Main purpose of the convention was to decide what might be done about "canned" music. Boss James C. ("Mussolini") Petrillo of the Chicago chapter was out to make national the ban on recording which he enforced locally on union men last winter (TIME, Jan. 4). A.F.M.'s President Josephs Weber of New York may have doubted the wisdom of such drastic action but his hand was being forced. When election of national officers of the A.F.M. is held, Chicago...
...debt-ridden, unprepossessing necropolis. Hubert Eaton, a realtor and onetime mining engineer, was assigned to manage it. He was immediately struck by the ugliness of its tombstones, by the fact that most cemeteries are "unsightly stoneyards, full of inartistic symbols and depressing customs." Mr. Eaton placed a ban on stones, substituting bronze markers laid flush with the grass. He forsook the word "cemetery" for more euphonious Memorial Park. Today under his chairmanship it has expanded to 200 acres, contains in one form or another the dust of some 55,000 humans, with room for about 150,000 more...
Quick to sense the unpopularity of this move with the general public, at least two British subjects announced that they would defy the ban, go to the wedding anyway: Sir Walter T. Monckton, Attorney General for the Duchy of Cornwall, and Major Edward Dudley ("Fruity") Metcalfe, onetime equerry to Edward as Prince of Wales, who will serve as Best Man. The fact that Sir Walter is a rich man with an important private practice and that Fruity Metcalfe has retired from the Army did not spoil the popularity of the gesture. Later the Counselor of the British Embassy at Paris...
...Oregon, churchmen unsuccessfully supported bills to ban liquor advertising, "hard drinking" in hotels and eating places, pari-mutuel horse and dog races. However, they counted as a triumph an act outlawing pinball and other coin gambling machines, although the bill was vetoed by the Governor...