Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reform at home (TIME, Dec. 8) with a move to re-establish its credit abroad: it offered to exchange defaulted Italian bonds, par value $67,936,100, for a new 30-year issue with interest payable in dollars (1% until 1950, 3% from 1952 on). SEC lifted the wartime ban on trading in Italian bonds...
Cocky little James Caesar Petrillo just sat back and waited. Recording companies rushed symphony orchestras, hillbilly bands and blues singers in & out of studios, trying to record as much as possible by January 1, when Petrillo's ban on record-making becomes effective. Record officials gloated that they had piled up a big enough backlog of new records to last a year or more. They were hopeful that Petrillo's Musicians' Union might not be able to stand so long a layoff...
Most officials who banned the speeches were unwilling to say in one-syllable words that Communists as such were unwelcome. Eisler, Marzani and Fast were refused ostensibly because they had been convicted of perjury or contempt. Said an editorial in Campus, student newspaper at City College: "[The ban] insults the student body by casting doubt on its ability to evaluate, analyze and form decisions...
...such a version-with studio coughs and occasional minor imperfections of playing-be released to the public. Toscanini, who is now 80, had agreed to record full-length operas for RCA Victor, but had still to make the first one, La Traviata. And with the Petrillo recording ban only ten days away, it was likely to be some time before he got around...
...with Vari-Type. And you could put out a damned good-looking paper." But it would not look so good to the I.T.U. This week, with 15 dailies struck in eight cities, the National Labor Relations Board was reported ready to ask the courts to ban I.T.U. strikes...