Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There will be no Derby at Epsom, near London, this year. But for the Grand National Steeplechase, staged for 101 years at Aintree-"on the safe side" of England-the British Government last week lifted its ban on crowd-gathering (no more than 15,000 in one place at one time), permitted the chase to be held as usual...
...missionary for purity in politics is Carl Atwood Hatch of Clovis, N. Mex. But Mr. Hatch believes in gradual, rather than total immersion. Last year he converted a dazed Senate to his bill barring all Federal jobholders* from pernicious political activity. This year he wanted more: to extend this ban to all State jobholders whose salaries are paid, even in part, from Federal funds. For next year he has bigger ideas still, including a revival of Theodore Roosevelt's radical proposal (1907) to let the U. S. Government finance Presidential campaigns...
Michael A. Sullivan's abortive attempt to ban the performance of "The Fall of the City" and "Waiting for Lefty" in Sanders Theatre last Friday night was the pay-off on a publicity stunt which nearly backfired on the Student Union...
Councilman Michael A. Sullivan and four policemen held up the H.S.U. show "Waiting for Lefty" a half-hour at Sanders Theatre last night while an impatient crowd and exasperated Student Union members vainly urged them to lift the ban they had imposed...
Mitch realized that with the Dominion parliamentary elections coming on March 26, "Canada at War" would do his Cassandra crusade little good. While he continued to rage against the film, accusing MARCH OF TIME of conniving with the Government, Canada at large lost patience with noisy Mitch, and his ban. "Arrant nonsense," snapped the Montreal Star. "It would be difficult to imagine any more puerile or childish action." Actually every country in the world except Soviet Russia and Germany would see the film, and Toronto newspapers republished its dialogue...