Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noisy ragamuffin of British journalism. In a country where newspaper circulations run to millions, only "about 100,000" workers bought it. When war came the Worker followed the Communist Party into guerrilla warfare against His Majesty's Government, and in January 1941 Herbert Morrison's Home Office banned it. Solemn Scotland Yarders moved into the printing offices, solemnly played rummy while the Worker staff got out appeals against the ban. The public, with blitz problems at hand, reacted only dimly...
...phenomena. The Communist Party's paying membership jumped from 20,000 in January to 53,000 in June. Londoners, with vehement regularity, jammed Trafalgar Square, 30,000 strong, to approve demands for a second front and revival of the Worker. The Labor Party voted a resolution against the ban. One after another, unions of miners, railwaymen, textile workers, locomotive drivers and journalists cried for the Worker...
Chubby, pleasant Devadas Gandhi, the Mahatma's third and youngest (27) son, was jailed. A ban on news of rioting and criticism of the Government led Indian newspapers in Calcutta (15), Bombay, Lucknow, Nagpur, Delhi and Ahmadabad to close...
...dodge the Army's ban on all aircraft-company interim reports, both companies did some fancy footwork: United cagily labeled itself "a Navy contractor." Aviation Corp. wriggled through the loophole exempting all companies which have less than one-third their total business in finished planes...
...gloomy statues are allowed in The Happy Cemetery-and the ban extends to representations of Christ on the cross. The Builder is impatient with portrayals of The Master as "a suffering being, of joyless visage." He is still hunting a marble Christ "who really smiles." Pursuing his ideal, Promoter Eaton once inspected 998 Christs of all sizes in Italy. None of them smiled...