Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stride. The orders cut to the very heart of daily life; but,by & large the people took them in stride (although no one laughed when 21 oil and gas cars were derailed near Springfield, Ill.). No one looked for complete enforcement of the pleasure-driving ban. After the first day there were surprisingly few violators, but OPA investigators who swarmed over the streets and highways got elaborate excuses. Some direct results of the order...
...Appointed Francis B. Sayre, pre-war High Commissioner to the Philippines, as Deputy Director of Foreign Relief & Rehabilitation under Herbert H. Lehman. >Decided to lift the ban against nationwide publication of casualty lists, in effect since Pearl Harbor. In this decision, he yielded to the persuasion of Information Director Elmer Davis, who had long resented accusations that the Government was needlessly withholding the cold, hard truth...
Neither were the British, apparently. Last week, while they kept democratic United Nations' friend Jawaharlal Nehru in jail, they lifted the ban on the Khaksars, a storm-trooperish gang which talks like the Axis radio. Possible reason for the ban-lifting: the Khaksars are violently anti-Congress. The British got a promise from the Khaksars that they would no longer drill, carry weapons, wear uniforms or badges, and "in general the activities of the Khaksars are to be of such a nature as not to cause the least anxiety to the authorities anywhere as long as the war lasts...
...Blue's unexpected aggressiveness raised many an eyebrow at stolid NBC, parental RCA. It gave advertisers special discounts, charmed them by other commercial wrinkles. It gleefully violated NBC's and CBS's ban on transcribed programs. This move was regarded as almost treasonable because the two big chains figure that live shows are their stock in trade. Big, live shows are expensive, but distinctive...
This argument means little to the Blue's young (41), soft-talking, sartorial president Mark Woods. Onetime shipyard worker and NBC vice president, he proposes to embark on a new cycle of U.S. broadcasting with transcriptions as soon as A.F.M. Boss James Caesar Petrillo's ban on recordings is resolved. President Woods thinks that war workers and others who cannot listen to the live shows in the evenings should be given a chance to hear them transcribed, that they could also provide the daytime soap operas with the competition they merit...