Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening. Playwright Robert E. Sherwood proposed that the show world teach Washington a lesson. "I believe," said he, "that it is the duty of all of us who work in the American theater ... to protest ... by agreeing that we shall keep our productions out of Washington until the ban against Negroes is abolished...
...mine-run banker in St. Louis before Old Pal Harry Truman brought him to the White House as naval aide, Vardaman lately had been doing much speaking out against Federal Reserve credit curbs and the Board's ban on margin trading. But what few listeners have realized is that Jake Vardaman claims to put out such thoughts "as an individual." He does not feel that he is laying down FRB policy. But his "unofficial" opposition has created plenty of confusion...
Paris they fight for an arrangement which will allow Yugoslavia to dominate Trieste. In Berlin they carry on a continued press campaign against the Western World but ban our newspapers from their sector if they contain the slightest criticism of Soviet policy. . . . They always appeal to the Potsdam accord when it serves their ends and violate it when it suits their purposes...
...Amsterdam, stockbrokers caught the fever, refused to do any more trading unless Finance Minister Pieter Lieftinck lifted his ban on trading in U.S. securities...
Last week there was no sign that the Daily News, in losing Patterson, had lost his "common touch." Its headlines still crackled (IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT, u.s. ANSWER TO TITO); its editorials were still full of beans. Its latest comment on those who would share, or ban, the atom bomb: We SAY IT'S SPINACH AND WE SAY THE HELL WITH...