Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agreement placed a flat ban on "collusive cartel" deals. This was an important concession from the British, whose policy in the Middle East restricted production on several important concessions and tied up markets in western Europe and India in prewar days...
...turn from pre-invasion military chores, confer on French politics with General Joseph Pierre Koenig, doughty hero of Bir Hacheim and the De Gaulle Government's military envoy in London. At week's end a hitch occurred. The Committee protested against Britain's diplomatic-code ban, maintained that under pre-invasion restrictions of communications' and travel the conversations "cannot be usefully pursued...
...Recently, at a dinner in honor of a Croatian delegation, a guest paid no attention to the ban on total-war talk and started telling of the frightful consequences of the [Allied] bombing attacks. Icy silence fell upon the company. Hitler stopped his meal and indicated that he wanted to leave the table. But at the last moment an outburst was avoided, and the dinner went on its normal course again...
...advance, followed chubby Critic Bernard DeVoto into a Cambridge, Massachusetts bookstore. So did a Civil Liberties Union lawyer. Then followed a neatly planned little routine. Critic DeVoto asked for a copy of Lillian Smith's Southern novel, Strange Fruit, which had been suppressed by Boston booksellers and banned by Cambridge's police chief for mixing a stubby Anglo-Saxon word into a serious study of miscegenation (TIME, April 10). For his $2.75, Benny DeVoto got a copy of the book and some strange fruit of his own seeking: a court summons for trafficking in "obscene" literature. Thus last...
Gaining importance when a ban was placed on commercial tutoring, the Bureau has been supplying tutors at a nominal fee to legitimate clients of the old schools, students who have missed work because of illness, who have had inadequate secondary school, preparation, or who have had any natural difficulty in keeping up with the course...