Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unwarranted and unsound, the ban on corsages imposed by two House winter dance committees threatens the livelihood of the florists of Harvard Square. To the committees, "no corsages" are a part of a promotional stunt. That stunt, to us, is a matter of life and death. In place of a corsage, there is a compulsory inclusion in the ticket price of a payment toward a defense bond lottery...
...Union Chief Petrillo could go in discriminating against non-union orchestra members was still a question even though at the last minute he revoked a ban...
Williams entries are Bob Hendria, Jalian Hemphill, Bill Schmidt, Dave Peet, Allan Maulsby, Ban Rugg, George Nehrbas, Michael Griggs, and Ted Hunt...
...meeting of parents, policemen and schoolmen last week to consider what to do, decided that 1) New Rochelle parents had been too lenient with their children, 2) if their town had better recreational facilities, their youngsters might spend less time in bars and roadhouses. A curfew and parental ban on juvenile driving were proposed but quickly rejected as too hard to enforce. The parents temporized by agreeing to try to make their children come home earlier at night; police promised to shoo minors away from bars...
Fact was that the vaunted British Civil Service had bungled again. The instructions lifting the ban on the Russian anthem had been sent to the wrong department, so that when the Guards' Band had inquired whether to honor the Russian mission with the Russian anthem, the right department had said...