Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Lyuh Woon Heung was seven, he watched his father, a yang ban (big landowner), beat a servant to death-a privilege that was legal in Korea until 1908. Said Lyuh later: "I determined then that when I became a man, I would destroy the yang ban class...
Lyuh never saw his boast realized. But he fought to make good on it. He was perhaps the only man in Korean politics who was disliked and feared by Communists and yang ban alike. Lyuh had neither a price nor a boss...
Also on the agenda is a discussion of resolutions in support of the Crow Bill, which would ban the dissemination of discriminatory propaganda through the mails, and the Buckley Bill, which would deny G.I. benefits to Communists and Communist sympathizers...
...Governor General of Canada, in the red robe of Oxford; U.N. Delegate Warren Austin (getting his third degree in three days) ; Eugene Cardinal Tisserant of the Vatican in his cardinal's red; Poet T. S. Eliot; and Yale's President Charles Seymour (who reminded a Princeton ban quet audience that their university had been founded by seven Yalemen and one Harvardman). And among the scholars in their academic robes were the uniformed General Eisenhower and Admirals Leahy and Nimitz. The Marine Band burst into Hail to the Chief. Escorted by Princeton's President Harold W. Dodds...
...midst of dress rehearsal came the bad news. General MacArthur's headquarters had banned The Mikado. The Japanese had applied two months ago for permission to perform it, and hearing no objections, had gone into production. Presumably Allied Headquarters had forgotten all about it until ads appeared in last week's papers, the day before the opening night. The announced reason for the ban: the Japanese had failed to get copyright permission. But unofficially, an Allied officer told U.S. newsmen: "This is not the time for Japanese to perform The Mikado" Japanese newspapers were forbidden even to mention...