Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long, liverish, open letter to Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Chicago's James T. Farrell, one of the most earnest authors and worst writers in the U.S., took issue with Canadian censorship. The reason: Ottawa had placed a ban on importation of his new novel, Bernard Clare, a lacklustre portrait of the artist as a young...
...Farrell's new novel, he said: "I discovered at least two chapters which I consider indecent. There was nothing else I could do about it but slap on the ban. . . . We're not on a witch hunt. The fewer such decisions we have to make the better we like...
...January 1942, Canada's liquid reserves of U.S. dollars and gold had fallen to $174,000,000, barely enough to finance war purchases for six weeks, the Foreign Exchange Control Board revealed. To conserve the rapidly dwindling reserves, drastic exchange controls were imposed, including the highly unpopular ban on use of U.S. dollars by Canadians for pleasure trips. But it was the inflow of dollars under the Hyde Park Agreement that helped most...
...automatic abolishment of controls until a special three-man board had reviewed the problem for each specific item. But then the upper chamber lent an ear to the lobbies. New England's dairy groups, the Midwest meat-producers, and the Senators from the oil states put in a specific ban against price ceilings on any of their products. There was still a ceiling, but the most important items in a family's budget were not protected from the economic storms...
...ban loosed a popular hue & cry. Said Rio's Diario Carioca: "The poor were seized with panic, since it cut off their only convenient, practical, inexpensive way to care for their health." Tongue-in-cheek Columnist Rubem Braga, in Diretrizes, suggested "installation of public injection centers, thus permitting the formation of long queues which could join with all the other queues into which the population has been marshaled...