Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dance bands picked up, usually after 11 p.m., in hotels and nightclubs, and fed to the networks as "remotes." Last week, after NBC and CBS refused to deprive KSTP and WRVA of these remotes, Boss Petrillo instructed dance bands not to make such broadcasts. MBS came under the ban when it helpfully piped its remotes to the other networks...
...Congress made the transportation of prizefight films in interstate commerce a criminal offense ($1,000 fine, a year in prison, or both). Widespread bootlegging weakened this ban and unhampered radio broadcasts made it almost meaningless, but it stayed on the books until last week. Then Franklin Roosevelt scratched his name to a repealing act passed by Congress, after 28 years making the movement of fight films over State lines legal...
...days he would build a bonfire in front of the Cardinal dugout, wrap himself in a blanket, do an Indian war dance. One night, out of ennui in a Philadelphia hotel, he and two teammates, dressed in painters' overalls, dragged ladders and paint cans into a crowded ban quet hall, began to redecorate the walls...
Last week Bob La Follette and Elbert Thomas finally had up in the Senate a bill to "give vitality to the rights of free speech and assembly . . . which have been denied by private spy systems and by private force." They proposed to ban i) spying on labor; 2) professional strikebreakers and strikebreaking agencies; 3) armed, private guards anywhere except on company property; 4) the private possession or use of such industrial munitions as machine guns, sawed-off shotguns, gas bombs...
WASHINGTON -- The Marian Anderson Citizens Committee tonight asked the 49th congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution to lift "the ban on Negro artists appearing at Constitution Hall...