Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first half, amid lost balls galore, amid more traveling than has been seen anywhere since the Okies settled in California, the Elis moved to a 24 to 23 lead. Fleet Eli guard Gil Gibbon, one of the more flagrant offenders of the ban on walking, slipped through an amazingly porous Crimson man-to-man defense for twelve points in the first ten minutes...
When the President issued his enlistment ban last December, an Army-Navy armistice seemed to have been finally reached, and the WMC talked glowingly of a single master plan for the colleges and an all-embracing, truly selective service. Today the Navy is again enlisting men under the guise of voluntary induction and the manpower clock has been turned back to Pearl Harbor days...
...Corp. belches no great plume of smoke over the industrial landscape; it is, simply, all that is left of the U.S. pianola roll business. But Imperial is a complete monopoly and it is enjoying a small boom, largely produced by A.F. of M. Boss James Caesar Petrillo's ban on phonograph recording (TIME, June...
...British Raj, fully aware of the great power of a fast-to-the-death in influencing Hindu public opinion,* suppressed the story but the Congress underground spread bulletins of his condition and his messages. In protest against the continuing press ban, more than 100 Indian newspapers refused to print any news at all (TIME, Jan. 18). As agitation reached a climax the Raj compromised; and the Professor's friends persuaded him to accept. At stake was a moral issue, typical of the root evils in the tragic Indian political situation...
...first night of the ban, Eleanor Roosevelt drove three blocks in a White House car to hear Negro Contralto Marian Anderson at the D.A.R.'s Constitution Hall. Three days later, unable to wait any longer in the Union Station for Daughter Anna Boettiger and Son-in-Law John (whose train was late) she walked the mile and a half back to the White House with a soldier she had met in the USO lounge...