Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question of his loyalty. Postmen knew that much of the protest against Ebey came from local women who had once helped prevent Pasadena's ex-Superintendent of Schools Willard E. Goslin ("A very controversial figure") from speaking in Houston. They had also helped force the schools to ban a U.N. essay contest. But when Newsman O'Leary began his spadework, he found the digging hard...
Over the past year, it has become quite clear the Post is a "McCarthy paper." Led by its new owner, John Fox '29, multi-millionaire oilman and financial wizard, the Post has not only joined the Senator's crusade against Communism, but started crusades of its own: to ban books from Boston's libraries, prevent the appointment of James B. Conant as U. S. High Commissioner in Germany, and unseat the management of Harvard University. To accomplish his purposes, Fox has accepted severe financial losses, for his competitors can offer advertisers morning and afternoon papers for the price...
...Messerschmitt turned to midget automobiles; Dornier fell back upon his construction interests in Spain and Switzerland; Heinkel put out machine tools and motor scooters from his Stuttgart factory. Two months ago, they formed an "Aero Union" to handle orders that might be coming from NATO, but thanks to the ban, and to French and British opposition to German rearmament, no orders came...
Should the West accept his make-parts (Ersatzteile) plan, said Heinkel, the West German industrialists could get 120,000 men on the job within two years. And should the planemaking ban be lifted altogether, they could switch back smoothly to full operation, making Western aircraft under Western license...
After Janet got back, Governor Savage quickly realized that he could never work successfully with the Reds. As soon as he let them repeal a ban on importing subversive literature, they brought in stocks of Communist propaganda. Then the new ministers fomented another big sugar strike that shut down the colony's main industry. When that petered out, they brought in a bill to force recognition of their Red-led union, and denounced "that man Savage" in open-air rallies. And when Janet Jagan drafted a party declaration demanding that London abolish the governor's control powers...