Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry's Arcade Spa, whose floors have felt the tread of Roosevelts and Rockefellers, pinball was termed "good clean fun," "necessary for morale," "harmless amusement."' "If the game is banned," said one habitue, "you will get a vicious ring of backroom machines and gambling. The ban will probably boomerang." Regardless of the outcome of the ban, Arcade Spa, which thrives on pinball revenue, will be hard...
...tomorrow night there will be no more pinball in Cambridge for the first time in years, and pinsters from Bow Street to the Square are wondering what's behind the ban and how long it will last...
...time for all parents to rise in disgust when "Czar" Petrillo goes so far as to ban high-school students from playing over the air (TIME, Feb. 19). I am writing to my Congressman. . . . Petrillo may defy the President, but he cannot defy the parents of the nation if they are sufficiently roused...
Lieut. General George S. Patton insists on spit & polish. Soldier-Cartoonist Bill Mauldin pictures G.I.s as grimy and unshaven. Patton recently threatened to ban Stars & Stripes from his Army area unless Mauldin's well-plugged uglies tidied themselves up. Mauldin came back with a cartoon dig at the general. Navy Captain Harry Butcher, General Eisenhower's top aide, told the two to get together...
...teachers, if necessary. Musicians thought Dr. Maddy, member of the A.F. of M. for 35 years, a brave man. Among the great ones Petrillo has successfully defied is the President of the U.S., who was rebuffed by the Czar when he publicly appealed to Little Caesar to lift his ban on making recordings...