Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peru's most important figure-more important than President Dr. Manuel Prado-is Raúl Haya de la Torre, fugitive head of the outlawed Aprista Party. President Prado, says Gunther, would probably like to lift the ban against the Apristas, but if he did, they would sweep him out of office at the next election. So he doesn...
...Pease's was a losing fight, and he knew it, but he never gave up. He had his consolations, and one triumph: the enforcement of the ban on smoking in New York's subways, which he took to court...
...construction industry (2,400,000 employes, $11,200,000,000 gross) was thrown into turmoil last week by a tough-sounding Washington press handout: the new Supply Priorities & Allocation Board would ban every bit of construction which could not qualify as defense or "essential to the health and safety of the people...
Instead of coming out and asking for a direct repeal of both Section 6 (the ship-arming ban) and Section 2 (the combat zone restrictions which prevent us from sending our merchant ships all the way to England), the President preferred to be strategic. He "recommended" that Congress concentrate its efforts on voting down Section 6 alone, and save the other section for "early consideration...
Instead of being able to amass their ranks for an out-and-out repeal of the Act, the Administration forces must wait and time their vote on Section 2 from two cues: the size and promptness of the vote on the ship-arming ban, and the success of opposition arguments in influencing public opinion. Once more, the War Congress has been hog-tied by the President's incurable habit of double talk, of trying to let the American people down easy on the one hand, and to defeat Hitler on the other...