Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This meant that faculty members who teach there would forthwith be suspended from the union, could get no paying job anywhere in Petrillo's empire-which is the entire musical U.S. - until he lifted his ban. Since the camp is open only two months of the year, most of its teachers depend on commercial engagements for their main income...
Anne Hutchinson, religious enthusiast who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638 for feeling good (called Antinomianism by Puritan divines), was the object of a bill introduced in the Massachusetts State Legislature. Object: to revoke her banishment and allow her to "return" to ban-bound Boston, where she is the only woman ever honored by a statue...
Thanks to the basketball boom, hundreds of bookies (threatened with the necessity of working for their living after the racing ban) have gone on doing business at their old stands in Chicago, Kansas City, Providence, Boston, Minneapolis and points south & west. The cagey Minneapolis bookies will not touch a New York or Boston game-because, they...
...Government's virtual ban on convention travel (deadline, Feb. 1) made this convention the last such gathering any of the buyers would attend until the transportation crisis eases. They were already strapped for merchandise (anything they bought was as good as sold), but with few exceptions the apparel manufacturers were accepting no new customers. They were favoring the old ones only with 75% to 80% of last year's orders and talking direly of slow deliveries. Furthermore, spokesmen warned all & sundry that the apparel industry faces a possible 1945 decline of $500,000,000 in retail dollar volume...
...Detroit) put into effect its total ban on all recorded commercial announcements...