Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago health authorities, ticking off three deaths in Chicago steam baths in recent months "from shock and exposure," called on the city council to ban steam-bath temperatures of more than 100° until the authorities can complete a safety study. (Present conventional ranges: 130° to 160°.) This aroused a storm of indignation among the bathhouse operators. Cried Charles Postl, 72, oldtime Loop steam-bath impresario: "Why, you can't even work up a good sweat at 100°. This is ridiculous. The whole civilized world will laugh at Chicago...
...construction, amusement and maritime industries, where employment is usually casual, temporary or intermittent, the law's ban on the closed shop should be relaxed. Employers and unions in these industries should be permitted to enter into agreements under which the union will be treated as the employees' representative, even before any employees are hired...
...growing nervousness was detectable in the Western chancelleries. Molotov could probably not be held to a discussion only of Germany and Austria. He might convincingly talk of total atomic disarmament-and a ban on atomic weapons, without any other kind of disarmament, would, as SHAPE Commander Alfred M. Gruenther acknowledged this week, be to Russia's advantage. Molotov might suggest a truce in Indo-China, and thereupon demand that Red China be invited to Berlin. Whatever the details, the Communists made no secret of their main ambition at Berlin: to defeat the West's plan for a European...
...Milwaukee, "when the district attorney . . . attempted to ban three well-known novels by personal edict ... he finally withdrew his ban under heavy fire from the Milwaukee Journal and citizens of the city...
...Ohio, Federal Judge James Mc-Namee set something of a precedent by barring the Youngstown police chief from setting himself up as a censor of "obscene literature." In New Jersey, a state judge slapped a prosecutor down for trying to ban books, ruled that he was violating the "constitutional guarantee of freedom of the press...