Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York City Dean lost his job last May after almost a year of attack from a Catholic Veteran group and the American Legion. Harold A. Lenz, Dean of Students at Queens College drew the fire of these groups shortly after his opposition to a proposed ban on renting College rooms to Communist or subversive groups. Lenz has been reassigned to the German department at Queens...
...complaints of an anonymous person who had 'glanced' at the pages that required years of training and experience, and months of composition on our part?" As if in answer, the Legionnaires increased their pressure, until the College dropped the book. Encouraged by this success, they began a campaign to ban "Basic Economics" from the other forty colleges and universities that used...
...ban touched off a series of protest from the city's other paper, the Knoxville News-Sentinel. "If works of art are to be judged by the public beliefs and public morals of their creators," the News-Sentinel said, "many of the world's masterpieces would have to be tossed into the garbage can." Letters to the editor from all over the state blasted the Legion for its part in the ban. One called them "our local commissars of culture...
...student political organizations at Wisconsin tried to force another one off campus at the University of Wisconsin last December. Aiming their guns at the Badger chapter of the Labor Youth League, the Young Republicans and the Badger Veterans Association asked the University and the state legislature to ban "all subversive groups" from using university facilities. The Labor Youth League is on the Attorney General's list of subversive organizations...
There is no Canadian law like the U.S.'s Taft-Hartley Act to ban Communists from union leadership, nothing to prevent Mine-Mill's Communist leaders from calling strikes against the country's atomic-energy program whenever they...