Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...television stations do not deny this, but do offer a few excuses. Program directors have operated on the skimpiest of budgets (until recently as much as 80% of television's money and personnel was spent on the engineering end), and against exasperating odds: inadequate studio equipment, a Petrillo ban on live musicians (which ended only nine weeks ago), and Hollywood's cold shoulder. Under the circumstances, it is perhaps remarkable that TV has offered anything at all worth looking...
Hughes's first step was to put a ban on hirings & firings for 60 days. That meant that Doré Schary, RKO's crack production chief, who had not met Hughes until last week, would remain in charge, at least for the present...
Completely cleaning out its annual docket, the Student Council last night approved support of a State Fair Educational Practises bill, acquiesced in the ban on women in Lamont Library, and heard a preliminary report of its Committee on Supplementary Instruction...
...Council voted to support the prohibition of women in the new undergraduate library when it approved the report of a delegation which interviewed University Library director Keyes DeW. Metcalf. The group had been instructed to ask a lifting of Metcalf's announced ban, but told the Council that it had been convinced that the physical plans for the Library would not easily accommodate women...
...easy to pollute a Hindu temple. Even a Brahmin can do it by entering a temple within ten days after the birth of his child, or if he has had a haircut and goes in before taking a bath. Until recently, when a civil law eased the ban, Untouchables could pollute a temple just by blundering beyond the main gate...