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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British sector, the Kurbel (meaning: the crank). The theater is in a neighborhood heavily populated by Polish Jewish D.P.s. One night last week, D.P.s rioted in the moviehouse, stopped the show, damaged the theater. Berlin Jewish groups and Ernst Reuter, Berlin's mayor, appealed to the British to ban the movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fagin in Berlin | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

When slender, white-haired Benjamin E. Youngdahl (brother of Minnesota's Governor Luther Youngdahl) came to St. Louis in 1945 as dean of Washington University's School of Social Work, he swore that in five years he'd "win an end to the ban on Negroes ... or go elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Another Slat Gone | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

These two problems must rank highest on the Congressional agenda; but there are several others which have been thrown into chaos by the Taft-Hartley Law. The ban on jurisdictional strikes is justified if only on the grounds that nobody gets anything out of them, and that annual plant elections, while not eliminating these strikes, can at least cut them down. But the prohibition of secondary boycotts is a more complex matter: some of these are justified by the necessity for cohesion in the labor movement, while some wreak unfair harm on an employer who may have nothing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wanted: No Panacea | 2/17/1949 | See Source »

...ban on unfair labor practices by employers (including refusal to bargain, and discharges for union activity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Dream Bill | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...state that the "logical absurdity" of this entire business would be for us to ban the work of Wagner and Pound and "all the other artists who also rejected free society." Gentlemen, you are talking nonsense. No one cares about Wagner; he has been dead a few years; he has not been invited to symphony Hall; whether or not he was disgusting 100 years ago cannot possible matter to us. His music lives, has a beauty and entity of its own as it comes to us through the medium of contemporary performers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hits Crimson Gieseking Stand | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

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