Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Justice Attacks. The Justice Department's action is against the South Eastern Underwriters Association (196 stock companies, representing 80% of the fire insurance written in the U.S.). It charges that S.E.U.A. members: 1) fix standard, noncompetitive rates and contracts; 2) ban from reinsurance pools any companies that do not meet their "standards" -a severe penalty in fire insurance, where a large fire can wipe out a single company; 3) boycott nonconforming agents...
Richard Wagner was finally readmitted to the repertory of the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra by the City Council, which decided to lift its four-year-old ban...
...Effect. Led by the nation's greatest newspaper, La Prensa, which no Argentine Government has dared to ban, the press gradually found its voice and published the majority demands. Sentiment against the Government snowballed. By midweek the "state of siege" decree muzzling the press had weakened so far that newspapers could print a Pan American declaration signed by 150 prominent Argentines. Next day the Government dismissed all public officials who had signed...
...vacant Vice Presidency. The Colonels, fearing a coalition of those who favor a break with the Axis, forced the resignation of three Cabinet Ministers (one of them a leader in the June revolution), saw to it that puppets replaced them. Police closed down all Jewish newspapers, lifted the ban before President Roosevelt had denounced this "obviously antiSemitic" action...
...10/10 (Oct. 10), the Revolution was 32 years old, and in Government House Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was taking the oath as President of the Republic of China. The people surged through the mud and drizzle to stare at the ban ners, the red posters, the lanterns, the brightly colored electric lights. In the gorge below the bleak, steeply terraced city, a gunboat barked 21 times...