Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only Child. In the committee rooms, things were humming. Presidential Candidate Harold Stassen appeared before Senator Robert A. Taft's Labor Committee to speak his piece on labor legislation. While his onetime protege Joe Ball glowered at him across the table, Stassen declared that the closed-shop ban and other anti-labor provisions of Ball's four labor bills would give so much "excess power" to capital that labor would be back to the bedrock days of the 19203, and the U.S. economy with it. Stassen's key suggestion: a strike should be called only if authorized...
Since no country would agree to a ban on all atomic development, President Conant emphasized that the other alternative, an international control of nuclear fuels, would hold "great promise as a road to lasting peace." The proposed control agency would have to be provided with the power of inspection over mines and potential mines, and direction of the plants for producing uranium...
During World War II, thanks to cash from high food prices, industrious Hutterites extended their farm holdings in southern Alberta. Protests at their "land grabbing" persuaded the provincial legislature to prohibit their buying any more. The wartime ban ends next May 1 and the 33 Hutterite colonies are already planning to expand...
Last week, as a provincial committee prepared to consider new legislation to head off Hutterite expansion, committees led by war veterans drafted new protests. They wanted the wartime ban made permanent. Some Hutterites prepared to move to the U.S. where there were already colonies in South Dakota and Montana. But others, who still had some hope of democratic treatment at the hands of fellow Canadians, got ready to fight back. They argued that their holdings, 41 acres per head, were only one-tenth as large as their neighbors'. Said bearded Hutterite Peter Hofer: "We cannot live unless...
...Johnston office approval before releasing the picture, had not shown it to the Legion of Decency only because a Technicolor strike had delayed prints of it until too late. Moreover, the film had not yet been distributed nationally. Selznick murmured that there might be some revisions. But an extended ban by the Catholic Church would mean plenty of trouble. Duel, already expensively delayed, could not be held up and revised if it was to gross the $20,000,000 that Selznick expected...