Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Child of Edison. He was enforcing three musical bans at once-old bans against television and frequency modulation radio stations (which were not allowed to share standard broadcasts of music), and a brand new and bigger ban against the record and transcription business. He had gone to Washington to let the House Education and Labor Committee ask him why he had done it. He beamed happily, thumbs in suspenders (see cut), over having beaten the rap in a Chicago federal court test of the Lea Act-a piece of legislation which had been written for the specific purpose of bringing...
Something for the Boys. In 1942 Petrillo took his biggest gamble. He pulled musicians out of all the nation's recording studios and demanded a royalty on every record sold. Before the ban was over Franklin Roosevelt himself had asked Petrillo to relent. He refused. Some minor companies had already capitulated and, after 27 months, the big record companies surrendered...
...wanted the companies to discover a way of giving him royalties (now forbidden by the Taft-Hartley Act), and of shouldering the responsibility of suggesting it. Whatever happened would not happen soon. Last week nothing would have horrified the big record producers more than an end to the ban. They had built up huge stockpiles of master recordings, a great many of which fell far short of their usual critical standards, and they needed months to sell them...
Tutoring schools were dealt the knockout punch in the spring of 1940 when the University made liable to disciplinary action any student using their services. The official ban ended a year-long campaign which was started after a Student Council poll showed that more than two-thirds of the student body frequented cram bureaus...
Meanwhile Rex Riccardi, vice-president of the American Federation of Musicians, admitted "I don't believe there is anything we can do against the Band." Previous to Petrillo's January 1 ban against union-made records, the AFM was able to block the Band by boycotting stores which distributed non-Union dises...