Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accumulated a bank balance of more than $12,000 on a $50-a-week salary, he replied: "I live frugally, spending money only for meat, beer and whisky." Bare Essentials. In Batavia, Ohio, after jurors in a murder trial protested to Judge Harry Britton that his "no newspapers" ban was putting them hopelessly behind in their comic strips, the court instructed bailiffs to clip out the funnies and distribute them daily...
...Lamont's ban on women will carry over to the new freshman study hall, Lamont Librarian Philip J. McNiff stated last night...
...trouble now, says the commission, is that doctors themselves have blocked some all-inclusive insurance plans that consumers want. And in several states there is a ban on plans sponsored by consumers. . But the biggest obstacle to the growth of insurance plans is inability to pay. The main groups which the commission lists as unable to buy prepaid medical care are: those on relief, the blind, the aged, dependent children, the growing numbers now living largely on social security benefits, and those eking out a marginal living on small incomes. To provide for all these, the commission proposes...
Vulgarity for God's Sake? Although the Catholic Church has never quailed from the reality of sin in this world, its movie censors almost ban the depiction of sin from the screen: "The notion, for instance, that sin is always, and very precisely, punished in this life would not appear to be Catholic dogma; yet it is at Catholic insistence that the screen echoes and re-echoes the concept...
...morally simpleminded" standards of the legion, Kerr continues, would automatically ban the filming of much of Nobel Prizewinner François Mauriac's work, or that of English Novelist Graham Greene, both Catholics. Concludes Kerr, after recalling a maxim quoted by French Catholic Paul Claudel ("God writes straight with crooked lines"): "Art without crooked lines is unnatural art-inevitably inferior art. And in its production not only the creative mind is betrayed; the Catholic mind, in its fullness, in its scope, in its centricity, is betrayed as well . . . We are moving closer and closer to the sort of stand...