Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year ban on open-air rallies in the classroom area was lifted yesterday when Dean Watson authorized use of the Memorial Hall triangle by the Committee to Save the Peace in its demonstration scheduled for tomorrow noon...
Last week, for the first time since 1943, such Geiger-counter hunting for uranium was opened to any prospector. In the House of Commons, Trade and Commerce Minister Clarence D. Howe announced the end of the ban on private uranium mining,*promised prospectors $2.75 a pound for ores with a minimum of 10% uranium oxide. Said Howe: the government is seeking "discovery of important deposits. At the moment we know of only one. We think there are others...
Last week, after Music Czar Petrillo lifted his ban on television (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the networks scrambled to be first to televise their big symphonies. CBS won by a nose, with a telecast of the Philadelphia Orchestra. It was an interesting performance: Maestro Eugene Ormandy, unwarily popping a peppermint into his mouth in midpassage; the camera ogling the girl members of the orchestra. But for most televiewers it was just a curtain raiser for Toscanini, half an hour later...
...Japanese press. The Armed Forces radio was told by headquarters that such information as the formation of "Veterans Against MacArthur" clubs was "controversial" and should not be broadcast. The same order went to the Army's Stars & Stripes. When the censorship was reported back to the U.S., the ban was lifted. GHQ explained that the general had not known about it, that he had given orders that the Japanese and the Army's press and radio wires be permitted to report any U.S. political attacks...
...Washington, Federal Judge Ben Moore opened a chink in the Taft-Hartley Act this week. He ruled that the act's ban against labor unions spending funds for political purposes was an "unconstitutional abridgement" of civil rights, and dismissed a test case against Phil Murray (TIME, Feb. 23). Next stop: the Supreme Court...