Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...states have brought suit against the publishers of "Memoirs of Hecate Country" in an effort to ban its sale within their borders. In California the book was withdrawn from sale after the state's legal action, while in New York the case is presently being appealed before the Supreme Court. It was never put on sale in Boston and surrounding environs because of existing "blue laws" and the vigilance of the Watch and Warders...
Their journal strayed far from the path they blazed, got lost more than once in the plush-horse latitudes of high society. But later editors kept up their fight for women's rights, gumptiously ran Chabas' September Morn (1912) in protest against the prudish post-Victorian ban on nudes. To instruct the well-to-do in the things it was well to do, they helped make skiing, motoring and flying socially acceptable...
...considering letting tourists into Bavaria to help the Germans get some dollar credits. Next year there will be a good bit of transportation available on planes (an estimated 100,000 seats) and ships (200,000). The big catch was to get the U.S. Department of State to lift the ban on tourists. But American Express was so hopeful that this would be done by summer that it announced two typical, all-expense tours, set tentative prices: ¶ A 25-day tour of Europe with passage on the liner America, six days in England (unless England is still pinched), three days...
...silver lining. Martin quoted the churchman: "If the leaders of Soviet Russia had been clever enough to respect individual rights and religious liberty in the countries they had occupied, Russia would today be by much the greatest power in the world. Perhaps we must thank le ban Dieu"-and he made a prayerful sign-"that He has not made them so intelligent...
...Washington the President still managed to smile. But he had a nasty cold which kept him from all but the most urgent business. Hoarse and sniffling, he had a friendly ten-minute chat with Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov. He opened the White House to sighteeers after a six-year ban on all but official callers. There was a postelection Cabinet meeting from which no news leaked...