Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While London reporters kidded frustrated U.S. confreres, the Iceland ban caused a furore in Washington. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, who dearly loves a secret, had actually promised that he would arrange to send U.S. correspondents to Iceland. He made his promise over the protest of Chief of Naval Operations Stark and Admiral King of the Atlantic Fleet. But one big No gummed up his plans. It issued from his Commander in Chief. Operating on Presidential instructions, the State Department refused passports to all correspondents...
...five years previously the Holy See had itself forbidden Canada's Catholics to join the Knights of Labor (forerunner of the A.F. of L.), and it took the prompt and vigorous intervention of the late great James Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore to keep the Vatican from extending the ban to U.S. Catholics. In 1887 Dr. Edward McGlynn, pastor of Manhattan's biggest Catholic parish, had been excommunicated for supporting Henry George's single-tax proposals.* And ten years after Rerum Novamm's publication no Catholic seminary in the U.S. had even elementary courses in economics...
...Bureau, which has become the most important source of special help for undergraduates since the Faculty imposed its ban on commercial tutoring schools last spring, has grown into a large scale organization in the past year; it was felt that the time had come to find out what students think of its services...
This is far better than the airlines dared hope in mid-February when 73-year-old War Secretary Stimson was lobbying for a total ban on new commercial planes. But airline operators did not crow about their victory, did not even announce they had received new planes. Reason: their national defense status...
...materials through the Soviet Union have been U.S. supplies going to China via Vladivostok and Swedish guns going to Turkey via Leningrad. The closing of both these avenues helps Germany and Japan some, helps Russia more, since it makes China and Turkey more dependent on Russia. No ban was placed on the shipment of supplies directly from Russia...