Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...works of many artists whose politics were at least as vicious as those of Gieseking--Richard Wagner and Ezra Pound, to name two. If Gieseking has not been allowed to play for American audiences for political reasons, then the logical absurdity reasons, then the logical absurdity would be to ban the work of Wagner and Pound and all the other artists who also rejected free society...
...Religious Front," which campaigns (with little hope of success) for a state based on the law of the Torah. Two of its chief planks: strict observance of the Sabbath, and a ban on importation of nonkosher meat...
...Teacher, which has sold close to 1,000,000 copies. Since 1928, Dean Weigle has been chairman of the executive committee of the World's Sunday School Association (now the World Council of Christian Education). In this capacity he is still a vociferous opponent of the ban on teaching religion in the public schools. Says he: "When the public schools ignore religion, it conveys to our children the suggestion that religion is without truth or value...
Farnsworth President E. A. Nicholas explained that the new figure included $1,765,000 which the company had decided to put aside for inventory reserve, and $396,000 for possible loss on investments in an affiliate. Audit adjustments accounted for the remainder. When the Exchange lifted the trading ban, the stock slumped 1⅞ and dropped another ¾ next...
...jeers. Henceforth, it voted, all high-school students will sign a pledge against joining a fraternity or sorority. If they refuse, they will still be able to attend classes, but they will be barred from all extracurricular activities. A few days later, the San Antonio Express denounced the ban as violating "the rights of privacy and assembly." Violation or not, San Antonio's school board was not alone last week. Other large Texas cities that have decreed similar bans: Dallas and Houston...