Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North Dakota, the legislature pondered three bills which would ban 1) the practice of an individual's buying a round of drinks, 2) the sale of candy cigarettes, clearly a menace to young Dakotans, and 3) dancing in the dark (it enables people to drink unseen...
...military prison, where he faces trial and a possible three-year jail sentence. The army announced that it would henceforth issue communiques to disown the retired "pajama" officers who have served as military dressing for Communist-front platforms. Justice Minister Negrão de Lima ordered police to ban all further "peace" meetings. "Evidence indicates," he said, "that notorious Communists are found among virtually all peace committees. These peace movements are merely a pretext for Communist propaganda...
...week's end, newsmen had appealed to a higher court for a reversal of Judge Valente's ban. The strongest argument they had was that the ban was a threat to both fair trials and press freedom. After one week of the ban, they also had a strong practical argument for reopening the trial in the gossip, rumor and biased information that had come out of the courtroom, unrestricted by the facts of a court transcript...
Actually, Feeney had been deprived of his rights as a priest when he was defrocked in 1949. The interdict barred all Catholics from frequenting the Center under penalty of forfeiting the right to receive the sacraments of Penance and the Holy Eucharist. Feeney ignored this ban and declared his right to "wear the Roman collar and teach the true faith...
Judge Valente banned the press only from the prosecution's presentation of the case against Jelke. Since newsmen will be free to print any details they can pick up about the closed testimony, the effect of the ruling will be not to shut off news of the trial, but merely to make reporting inaccurate and unchecked. Summed up New York Times Lawyer Thomas F. Daly: the ban was an infringement of freedom of the press and could lead to "star chamber proceedings," violating the American principle of open and public trial...