Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Copenhagen, a theatre critic was challenged to a duel for making nasty cracks about an actor's lady friend. Because Denmark's Nazi conquerors have put a strict ban on firearms for Danes, the critic chose bows & arrows, ended the encounter at his second shot by pinking his antagonist...
Germans, nourished for the past eleven months on a staple diet of promises and threats, were suddenly commanded last week to partake of the fruits of victory. Adolf Hitler, back from the wars for a short vacation at his Alpine snuggery, rescinded his ban on dancing and decreed that his countrymen could dance on Wednesdays and Saturdays between 7 p.m. and curfew. He also granted them permission to tune in on Nazi-occupied Norway, Belgium, The Netherlands and France, but still forbade them under pain of beheading to listen to Denmark, which, at least theoretically, is not "subject to German...
France, said Laval, will ban all strikes and lockouts; will banish "international doctrines," bar from power any politician who ever played with the Popular Front of Léon Blum, Edouard Daladier; will oppose any effort to stimulate class consciousness, do all in its power to insure "a friendly press." Laval's France is through being "a humanitarian crusader for other nations," will hereafter look out for herself alone. By way of looking after France's interest, the Pétain Government sent Great Britain, France's former ally, a demand for reparations for the damage done...
Many grateful theatre managers and fight fans had forgotten why the ban had been imposed. Not so the man who lifted it, New Jersey's Senator William Warren Barbour, now 51 and a fine figure of a Republican...
...Millionaire Kid," was not averse, but his parents dissuaded him from turning professional. Last year, with another and more popular Negro champion on the throne, Senator Barbour thought it time to introduce his bill, got his friend Jack Dempsey to tell a Congressional committee that the movie ban was an archaic handicap to the manly sport. Republican Barbour is now training for a fast go with Democrat James Cromwell (an amateur boxer who once went a few exhibition rounds with Tommy Loughran) for his Senate seat...