Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...County Board of Supervisors took drastic action. It passed an ordinance providing a $500 fine or a six-month jail term for selling crime comics to children under 18. The law will cover only the rural areas of the county, but the legislature will be asked to make the ban statewide...
...After the Dean's office last spring prevented the New Student, published by the HYD, from using the Harvard name and banned intra-University selling of the magazine, the Student Council held hearings on the matter. The HYRC was the only organization which testified in favor of the ban. Despite their brief, the Council recommended that the Faculty reverse its decision on the matter. This request was rejected...
Theatrically, Washington had become the tank town of world capitals. The National Theater, the only legitimate house in town, had decided to run movies rather than obey the Actors' Equity ban on discrimination against Negroes (TIME, Aug. 9). Several willing impresarios were making no headway toward opening a playhouse. It appeared that Washington, for the first time in more than a century, would have no season...
...WASHINGTON, WMAL-TV celebrated the lifting of an FCC ban by presenting "Mentalist" Robert L. Friend. In short order, he reduced three giggling university coeds to a trance-like state (a fourth coed continued to giggle and was excused). Hypnotist Friend, who was careful not to beam his big, brown eyes at the television audience,* will not do another hypnotic show, he says, until televiewers "clamor and clamor and clamor...
...made more than $2,000,000 and spent most of it. He once confessed: "I lost $35,000 on one horse race alone." Ban Johnson, late president of the American League once said with asperity but accuracy: "Ruth has the mind of a 15-year-old boy." The Babe couldn't-even remember the names of his teammates. He greeted everybody, old or young, with his famed welcome: "Hello...