Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instruments of Law. In his long fight against' canned music, Petrillo has managed some lucrative compromises with technological progress. Five years ago he called a ban on recording, kept it on tight for 27 months, eventually won a settlement under which the recording companies paid A.F.M. a royalty on every disc they made. Last year the royalties amounted to about $2,000,000 (every cent of it went to unemployed musicians, says Petrillo...
...acutely overcrowded, a condition for which one cure would be an application of the age old rule of the survival of the fittest. But Petrilo's is a different prognosis, although it involves almost as old a principle, namely that technological progress constitutes a social menace. The new record ban, according to his announcement, is not just a means of obtaining for musicians a bigger share of the $210,000,000 annual income from recordings, but a move designed to get rid of the institution permanently as a job-reducing evil...
Judging from past experience, his legal vulnerability is not so great, Several years ago, on the inspiration of a similar Petrillo ban, Congress passed the Lea Bill, which forbade the forcing of a radio station licensee to hire any more employees than necessary for the running of his station. The Act was judged unconstitutional by an Hlinois District Court in 1946 on the grounds of being indefinite, discriminatory, and a violation of the thirteenth amendment forbidding involuntary servitude. Petrillo might possibly be stopped in the courts either by an appeal from this decision, by an application of the Taft-Hartley...
...Yale weekend had better make new plans for Friday night, because there just isn't going to be any rally. Damage done to the city of New Haven when a parade of beer-soaked Yalies got out of hand during Pre-Cornell festivities prompted the college to issue a ban on all football rallies this year...
...passions and prejudices need no stirring up. They sit in on sessions of the House Committee on Un-American Activities and are the driving force behind the present campaign of loyalty checks; it is passion arising from prejudice that has purged individuals from private jobs and caused colleges to ban student leftist organizations...