Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 Legionaires 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 protests 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...
...discriminate only against the entertainment industry, the Daughters ejected an Ethiopian Minister in the middle of a scientific convention. Marian Anderson, the first celebrity to meet Constitution Hall's closed doors, was also the first to find them wide open. In 1951, twelve years after her initial ban, the DAR admitted her right to sing. An apologetic spokesman said that the Daughters had been trying to stop the bannings for years, but could never quite manage...
...Manon," which has been banned by the Boston censors, is not banned in Cambridge. Meyer claims that if he allowed the HLU to have a film of such high commercial value on a first run performance, its value to him in Boston would be lessened if the films ban were lifted at some later date. Jorrin, however, sees the action "as just another attempt by national distributors to control commercial theatres...