Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Denver Jack Graham was about to go on trial, charged with placing a time bomb aboard an airliner that blew up in midair, killing his mother and 43 other passengers and crewmen (TIME, Nov. 28). The court invoked longstanding Canon 35 of the American Bar Association code, which bans cameras from courtrooms. "I was home ill that day," recalled Colorado Supreme Court Justice O. Otto Moore. "I happened to be listening to the radio and heard Hugh Terry come on the air objecting to the ban. It was a radio editorial, the first I had ever heard." Im pressed, Justice...
...surprising fact was that the ban on trading had not been necessary to protect the unknowing American investors. Few, if any, of them had lost money on the stock. In fact, they could have made a lot. Those who had lost money-and stood to lose a great deal more-were the hardeyed professional speculators on Toronto's Bay Street who had committed one of the mortal sins of speculation: they had been "caught short" in Chatco stock. They had sold thousands of shares of the stock in hopes that it would fall and they could pick...
...some instances, however, it would seem that the administration is entirely justified in treating the undergraduates as babies. One of the loudest cries raised by some anguished students concerns the liquor ban of last spring. The official letter announcing the ban read as follows: "Because of excess and boisterousness during Spring weekend, the serving of alcoholic beverages at social functions is prohibited for the remainder of the academic year, except for approved senior activities during commencement week...
...quadrangle that weekend, the state of inebriation reached such a height that a beer can narrowly missed Dean Durgin's wife. Also that weekend, a half dozen "happy" undergraduates tore up bushes in the quadrangle and did damage amounting to about $3,000. Under these circumstances, the ban might best be considered a curtailment of license rather than an abrogation of liberty...
...times, University policy has leant credence to these ill-defined feelings. One incident about which virtually all students are misinformed and about which they are all very vehement is the now notorious couch ban. On the surface it appeared like nothing more than a senseless and arbitrary use of power by the administration. Suddenly from the office of the manager of student residences came a pronouncement forbidding the use of couches in the rooms. After widespread protest, this was changed to "required registration" of couches. It is understood by some that the whole incident was merely a testing of strength...