Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sent to the White House a bill forbidding Music Czar James Caesar Petrillo to: 1) tax canned music, 2) ban amateurs, 3) featherbed on U.S. radio...
...Young still hopes to set up his own through Pullman service. The Department of Justice gave him encouragement last week when it asked the U.S. Supreme Court to ban the sale of the Pullman Co. to a combination of 52 railroads. Although the sale had been approved by a District Court as a method of dissolving Pullman's monopoly, Justice argued that this would merely set up a new monopoly. Justice's candidate for ownership of the Pullmans: Bob Young...
Last March, suddenly overwhelmed by conscience, City Councilman Sullivan dreamt up a clever way to turn his delinquency complex on the city. "The cause of delinquency," quoth he, "is the pinball machine!" Since logic is logic, his next deduction was simple. "Let's ban it!" he beamed...
...ban was reconsidered by the Committee of Housemasters last week, and the consensus was that it should be lifted. With the return of several members not available for the original meeting, approval for the move was secured, and the official announcement was made yesterday...
...suppress him or his views at the cost of creating an atmosphere of censorship?' " He sometimes scolded Smith girls for knitting or gum-chewing in class. "Smoking," he once told them, "is a dirty, expensive and unhygienic habit, to which I am devoted." When he lifted the ban on tobacco, he asked only that the girls "smoke like gentlemen...