Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of a night session to debate a proposed constitutional amendment to bar a presidential third term. Then the G.O.P. leadership frittered away the rest of its first night session discussing not issues, but agenda, barely squeezing in a vote (59-to-23) to pass the third-term ban...
...book. Leading Siamese critics and historians had taken pains to point out that it was more than 75% inaccurate (refined King Mongkut, for example, had certainly never burned a wife). The criticisms only made the movie more of a treat, because most Siamese had expected the royal family to ban it altogether, or censor it beyond recognition. But the President of the Regency, faithful to Anna Leonowen's precepts, had decided after careful consideration to leave it alone. "The people want to see the film in its entirety," he said, "and in a democracy the people are the best...
...Columbia, Mo., where there was a ban on student gatherings because of a flu epidemic, the Kansas-Missouri game (won by Kansas, 48-to-38) was attended by sportswriters, coaches, officials, substitutes...
...system with an official program. A year later, on May 21, 1940, another faculty vote made undergraduates liable to disciplinary action if they employed "the services of a commercial tutoring school." Although the battle had been largely won, the system did not die easily. Two days after the ban had been enacted, the Crimson was able to obtain a picture of a Parker-Cramer cram session going full blast. Parker-Cramer promptly filed suit for $55,000 and lost...
Then Henry Kaiser asked the Interstate Commerce Commission to ban the cut for Geneva. Last week, he got the help of two potent allies. Attorney General Tom C. Clark filed suit to keep Big Steel's Columbia from buying Consolidated on grounds that it would give Steel a virtual monopoly on West Coast steelmaking and fabricating. The RFC, worried about its huge investment in Fontana, also asked the ICC to hold up the Geneva reduction...