Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blanket Ban. The Immigration Act of 1924 banned all Oriental immigration. What particularly humiliates the Chinese is that, among all Orientals, including Japs, they alone are specifically singled out by name in U.S. law as undesirable citizens. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the result of a California labor surplus (thousands of coolies helped build the U.S. railroads). But the Act, long obsolete, is still on the books...
...with interest that I read of Colonel Householder's ban on certain of the songs the boys in Atlantic City sing (TIME...
...pleasure-driving ban, which had been lifted March 22, went back in twelve East Coast states. The New York District OPA ordered public transportation to be used, "even though it may be uncomfortable, timeconsuming, or more costly...
Trolls in the Forests. Outward appearances last week placed the Swedes closer to a break with Germany than at any other time during the war. Sweden's stubborn insistence lifted a paralyzing four-month ban on overseas shipping through the Skagerrak. Angry notes passed over the sinking of two Swedish submarines Ulven and Draken, in Swedish territorial waters. The insult direct was implicit in the appointment of Baron Johan Beck-Früs as Minister to the exiled government in London of Norway's valiant old King Haakon...
...visualize the war whoop," he cries, "when Arkansas, third state on the roll call, rises to yield to Wisconsin!" Representative Fish, who shares with the McCormick-Patterson family his enthusiasm for MacArthur as an anti-New Deal candidate, has introduced a bill to repeal the Army ban on the political candidacies of men in active service...