Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cheering students, his two attorneys, and the Boston vice-squad, accepted a marked half-dollar from the Rev. J. Frank Chase in payment for the "Hatrack" issue of Mencken's American Mercury. The police and Chase's Watch and Ward Society had placed the issue under the ban because the short story "Hatrack" concerned prostitution in a small town...
...Only the Attorney General and District Attorneys can initiate proceedings to ban the sale of a book, a proviso which severely limits direct legal action by local authorities...
Detectives, often policewomen, are also often used to screen most films, plays and art exhibitions. In the spring of 1951, Exstrasy an Austrian film, thus came under a Cambridge ban for its suggestive symbolism, and because Hedy Lamarr appeared nude. Last spring, a Brattle production of Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms was "cleaned up" enough to avoid being forbidden, after the ladies found it shocking...
...little over a month before this November's elections, the SRP voluntarily dissolved. By doing so it just beat Adenauer's official ban on the grounds of blatant nazism. The SRP candidates mostly gravitated to the BHE, a fascist party originally organized as an official voice for refugees from East Germany, denazification courts, and lands in which they settled as Nazi colonists...
...ban was news to many Russian scholars who were never told why certain Russian publications stopped coming. In trying to protect the U.S. from Red propaganda, the Government was actually destroying one of the most important sources of counter-propaganda. Said a New Leader editorial: "Information about Soviet affairs [is] sorely needed by Americans and put to good use by responsible anti-Communist scholars...