Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in history, last summer war became an active possibility between the U.S. and a nation this country had evangelized. Japan reacted by banning foreign-mission executives and funds, more or less as the U.S. might ban German cultural agents from executive posts in American churches. Thereupon Japanese Christians did the logical thing: they took full control of their churches with un-oriental speed before their Government got still tougher. In so doing they merged 42 denominations into one, leaving out only the Roman Catholics, Russian Orthodox, Episcopalians (who refused to recognize the validity of the ministerial orders...
...Associated Press wire from Budapest revealed something hitherto unknown about the dead Premier: "Teleki was one of the men behind the book Why Germany Cannot Win The War, which broke all sales records in Hungary. Teleki told the author, Ivan Lajos, that he intended to ban the book-after it had sold 100,000 copies. He added that he would ban it before that unless a copy was put in the hands of every Hungarian Army officer...
...womanhood," called upon the police to ban it. - When U.S. women for the ninth year opened their newspapers to learn what Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt was wearing for Easter, they read with distress that she had forgotten what it was, except that the hat was "non-standardized." Last week the question was answered. In Manhattan Mrs. Roosevelt emerged from a final fitting at Arnold Constable's in a staid ensemble of neon purple and violet, a purple hat (see cut). - Soon after dimpled, 35-year-old Tobacco Scion Richard Joshua Reynolds Jr. lent Democratic campaign committees some...
Businessmen who had suffered from the loss of winter tourist trade got the ban lifted in 1915, and Colonel Edward Riley Bradley, owner of Kentucky's famed Idle Hour Farm, who took over the old course in 1925, turned it into a show place. The Colonel built up the New Orleans Handicap purse to $50,000 - the U. S.'s richest winter stake. Those brave days lasted seven years. Then Louisiana's oafish dictator, Huey Long, decided it was time for Bradley to go. Up went the Fair Grounds' real-estate assessment to prohibitive heights...
...this should happen, executive members of the Liberal Union will put forward a counter-resolution contending that, although Communists have proved to be the ruin of certain organizations in which the HLU has been interested, a complete ban would ultimately do more harm than good...