Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rubber Boss Bradley Dewey slapped a ban on the use of synthetic rubber in many a civilian item, even nipped plans for girdle manufacture...
...fundamentalist offshoot of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Another offshoot: The Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Difference: Bible Presbyterians ban all liquor; Orthodox Presbyterians permit beer and wine...
...world. Of the books that have really influenced European minds since 1920, Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front and Arnold Zweig's The Case of Sergeant Grischa are not even mentioned; Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf comes under the editors' ban against "fascist elements" in "style and ideology"; books by Lenin and Trotzky (easily the most brilliant writing that has appeared in Russia since the Revolution) and Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West are ruled out by the editors' decision to stick to "creative "writing...
Walker postdated his ban to Feb. 28, and counsel for Esquire hastily laid plans for suit this week to overturn "a far-reaching, arbitrary, capricious decision by which one man sets himself up to decide what is in the public welfare." Esquire Editor Arnold Gingrich broadly hinted of group pressure on Catholic Mr. Walker. Said he: "[The Postmaster General] possibly had a commitment to carry out somebody else's wishes." From Catholic Bishop John Francis Noll (of Fort Wayne, Ind.), as chairman of the National Organization for Decent Literature, came a statement: "Esquire not even on our disapproved list...
These were the first North African pilgrims to make the Haj (pilgrimage) in four years. Because of the war, the French have hitherto banned the trip. The lifting of the ban by the Committee of National liberation is a shrewd gesture much appreciated by French North Africa's Moslems, who number...