Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they scrupulously adhere to the U.N. embargo on shipments of war materials, but their assurances leave scope for convenient "exceptions." Whitehall's definition of the term non-strategic is more elastic than the State Department's. Example: Britain regards railroad equipment as non-strategic; the U.S. officially bans everything, so far as its own traders are concerned, and has persuaded its European partners to ban 260 items as strategic.* Most dismaying of all in Britain's case, the Foreign Office admitted that until very recently it had turned a blind eye towards British flag vessels shipping...
...Luce do not apply to the case of a Brazilian woman." In the end, the judges denied Maria Sandra's appeal. But friends in Parliament were trying to push through bills to admit women to the foreign service. The Foreign Office recommended to President Getulio Vargas that the ban against women be dropped, and allowed Maria Sandra to study at its special training school for diplomats (whose entrance exams she had passed with flying colors). Said she: "I am in love with the Foreign Office . . . It's no use being mad at the judges-that wouldn...
...Catholic could "neither elector nor elected" be; Pius deemed it a surrender for Catholics to join in the affairs of the determinedly anti-church regime, which had shorn, the Vatican of property and political authority in Italy. But as the political peril to religion developed on the left, the ban slowly relaxed. At the end of World War I, a scholarly Sicilian priest named Luigi Sturzo persuaded Pope Benedict XV to let him form a political party of Catholic laymen. Don Luigi promised that he would resolutely avoid church control, and he kept his promise...
...schools]," said he in a speech in Boston, "serves and helps to maintain group cleavages." Last week another topflight Ivy Leaguer took an uncompromising position on the other side of the question. As things are going now, said Princeton's President Harold Dodds at a Loomis School ban quet, a single school system would be a national calamity. One reason: because the public-school system is not doing a good enough...
...Carlson, YGOP member, introduced the resolution December 19. Asking the college to ban all subversive groups, he said "such groups do the work of the Communist party." Speaking for the resolution, John Fritschler. Young Republican chairman for the Big Ten Colleges, said "we must prevent the training of traitors on campuses...