Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elsewhere, the anti-Yankee attacks were brassily strident. Tribuna Popular (still getting a half supply of newsprint from the Government) blamed the U.S., along with Dutra and the Army, for the "illegal" political ban. U.S. Ambassador William D. Pawley was accused of "leading the offensive of U.S. capital against Brazil." The facts: peripatetic Bill Pawley had been sunning himself in Miami at the time the Electoral Tribunal made up its mind on the Commies; the U.S. Embassy had maintained a scrupulous hands-off attitude toward the Government move; privately, Embassy officials felt there were better ways of fighting Communism than...
...Senate was mostly preoccupied with getting out a labor bill. The Republican majority finally reached an agreement on a bill which contained no ban on industry-wide bargaining and was much less rigorous than the one approved by the House...
...itself as a Southern city, was sharply reminded last week that it is also the nation's capital. Actors' Equity Association, the actors' union, served the proprietor of the National Theater (Washington's one & only "legit" playhouse) with an ultimatum: the theater's ban on selling seats to Negroes must be lifted by June 1948-or Equity will ban all its actors from playing there...
Americans in Buenos Aires busily pushed cultural schemes, such as a program to send more students northward each year. Others worked to further the unspectacular but steady growth of Argentine exports to the U.S. But as long as the U.S. maintained its foot-&-mouth disease ban on cattle and the Mediterranean fly ban on fruit, and as long as the U.S. kept growing the same farm products as Argentina, there would be a limit to the boom...
Novelist Henry Miller, a Paris expatriate when the going was good, is famed for his ability to write obscenities that are disgusting rather than pornographic. Last week in broadminded Paris, his onetime refuge, an anti-vice organization was trying to ban his books. And in Monterey, Calif., where he now finds the going better, a less familiar Miller talent was on display: his watercolors...