Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grau had made enough mistakes to rule him right out of the 1948 presidential race, for which his friends once tried to back him despite the constitutional ban on reelection. Hasty critics overlook Grau's educational program (236 schools built, more building), his high-capacity (if slow-building) housing and public-works plans, and his own defense that "never in history has there been...
...Battle. What next? The Communists would fight their ban. In a 15th-floor office on Rio's main-stem Avenida Rio Branco, moon-faced Communist Lawyer Sinval Palmeira clutched the multipage appeal he will present to the Supreme Tribunal. He had a diplomatic good word for the Yankees. "The U.S. Constitution," he said, "is helping me to write...
...foreign trade. A Government trade mission arrived in Tokyo to survey Japan's shattered industry. The mission wants to find out what Japan can make, what raw materials will be needed, and how material imports can be financed. Then, some time this summer, it hopes to lift the ban on private trade. Even then, trade will be strictly regulated, and bulk commodities like tea, raw silk, and cotton goods will still be handled by the U.S. Commercial...
...emotional and not factual enough. Only 17% thought advertising prose "silly." But more than half thought advertising was often in bad taste. They objected to detailed references to bodily functions, ads with the gossip theme (the "careless" beauty who becomes a social outcast) and sexy illustrations (44% would completely ban the nude or semi-nude...
...Ban the closed shop, but permit the union shop* if a majority of the workers vote for it in a secret election...