Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yoder filed suit because he has had the ban placed upon him. To be "mited" means that a former good member of the Amish Church has gone astray from the Amish interpretation of the Bible, and although he may continue to sleep in Amish homes, he is shunned. Members are advised not to eat with the offender, to refrain from any business dealings or associations with him, and in general to disregard...
Whatever their aim, they had made a pretty good answer to the U.S.'s highhanded threat to ban bulb imports...
...real pressure for the ban had little to do with disease; it came from Washington and Oregon nursery men, who resented the popularity of Dutch bulbs among U.S. home gardeners. Whispered one member of the department: "The problem is commercial, but we are trying to solve it biologically...
...year, would make nearly that many in the next six weeks. Crosby and Sinatra master platters were stacked ceiling-high. RCA-Victor had enough classical masters to last 25 years. Popular bandleaders were canceling fat dance dates to squeeze in recording dates. Everyone was getting set for the ban on record-making that James Caesar Petrillo, boss of the Musicians' Union, had ordered...
...paying his union off. He has another target too: the disc jockeys who coin fortunes by playing records all day long without paying royalties to either performers or the union. Some record executives like to think that Petrillo is really after the broadcasters, and that the recording ban is only a bluff...