Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ban on The Nation, liberal weekly magazine, in New York City's public schools has drawn fire from five University professors and officials...
...Hatch Act, and like any law, it should first of all be detailed and specific. It is not enough to state that location of rallies will be fixed by the Dean's Office. Students must know exactly what streets, what steps, what squares they may invade. Just as the ban on Yard against sound trucks at Stillman should be patently clear. And if the Dean's Office is going to say "Stop" and "Go" to College publications, it should broadcast the whys and wherefores ahead of time. Last term there were charges of political prejudice and other angry words when...
Laws prohibiting the intermarriage of whites and Negroes are on the books of 30 states,* have survived every legal test. Last week one of those states changed its mind. California's ban on mixed marriages was declared unconstitutional by a 4-to-3 decision of the state's Supreme Court. Marriage, said the majority opinion, is a fundamental right of free men; and the right to marry includes the right to marry the person of one's choice...
...Louis Post-Dispatch admonishes cubs, with good reason, that probe is to be "generally reserved for surgeons," and is not a synonym for investigate. (But, like aid, bar, ban, hit, quiz, curb, and other short verbs, it is a constant temptation to headline writers.) Since the days of famed Managing Editor O. K. Bovard, the P-D has had a ban against hit &run driver. It's bad taste, said O.K., to refer to a traffic tragedy in sporting terms...
...used, at any time--day or night. If they couldn't of course, then city officials would be hazarding the lives and property of their citizens for the sake of the small change from parking meters. Snow removal in the winter requires streets to be clear. Yet the parking ban extends to such off-thoroughfare areas as the triangle just above the Square, and the spaces in front of Claverly...