Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week at President Eisenhower's weekly White House meeting with congressional leaders: Republican strategy in upcoming Capitol Hill maneuvers over an anti-racketeering labor bill. At Ike's urging, the G.O.P. will go all the way for a moderately tough Administration labor bill that would ban secondary boycotts and blackmail picketing. In the Senate Labor Committee, and then, if necessary, on the floor, Senate Republicans will attempt to substitute the Administration package for a milder bill introduced by Massachusetts Democrat Jack Kennedy. Since the House Labor Committee is distinctly unfriendly to Ike's bill, Minority Leader...
...Pantagraph's strange ban has been in force so long that no one on the paper remembers when it began, or why. Some say it dates from the 1880s, when, for the first time, regular word of extra-Bloom-ington events came stuttering in over the newfangled press service telegraph and-in Bloomington, anyway-took a greedy grip on Page One. Today the sight of a local story on the front page would perturb editor and reader both...
GENEVA, Feb. 26--The United States and Britain said today Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's rigid stand on nuclear disarmament has brought test ban talks here to the verge of collapse...
...years the U.S. has been trying to patch up Seoul's quarrels with Tokyo, so that the nations could set up diplomatic relations. Rhee was adamant. He refused to modify his seven-year-old ban on Japanese fishing boats within 60 miles of the Korean coast. He refused to take Japan's Koreans back into South Korea. Getting nowhere with Rhee, both Fujiyama and Premier Nobusuke Kishi reckoned that any move to get rid of Japan's "Korean residents'" would be popular with Japanese voters...
...Bell official turned down his system. Not till the independents had widely installed the dial did A. T. & T. go along. Many people protested the move. When dial phones were installed in the Capitol in 1930, Senator Carter Glass even tried, unsuccessfully, to push through a resolution to ban dials. Said he: "I object to being transformed into one of the employees of the telephone company without compensation." Cracked Humorist Will Rogers: "They want nothing connected with the Senate in any way where the responsibility can't be shifted...