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Word: bans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corn belt" (i.e., giving them to harmonica outfits to record), were riffling through their desk drawers. Bandleaders were set for hurried rehearsals; Crosby, Como and Sinatra weren't straying too far from their telephones. Last week, after ten months, it looked as if the record ban was about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pass That Peace Pipe | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Jimmy Petrillo's lawyer had gotten together with RCA Boss David Sarnoff, representing the record makers. The compromise was simple: the union musicians relaxed their demands for royalties on all records sold since the Jan. i ban, in return for fatter royalties to come when the presses start cutting records. The new rates: 1% of the retail price of all records selling under $1 and a "slight increase" in royalties on records costing more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pass That Peace Pipe | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...union closed shop ban, number five on the ballot, was losing 86,863 to 47,356 this morning. Question 6, regulating union elections was behind 74,819 to 58,348. Number 7, concerning strike votes drew 73,229 nays and 59,287 approvals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bay State Votes Down Labor Bills | 11/3/1948 | See Source »

...Supreme Court sustained 4 to 4 (a tie upholds the lower court) New York State's right to ban Edmund Wilson's Memoirs of Hecate County as obscene, but only after several copies of the book, supplied for the justices' reading, disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...following new classical albums are either imports or pre-ban recordings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

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