Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professor at the University of Washington last night endorsed the stand of Perry G. E. Miller, professor of American Literature, in refusing to speak at the Seattle institution following its ban on scheduled talks by Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer...
Although the nation's Better Business Bureaus and legitimate advertisers are battling the baiters, they have found it hard to make fraud charges stick so long as the sharpie actually has a cheap product for sale. Radio and television stations have been slow to ban bait ads, say that it is impossible to check every advertiser. One of the best ways to end bait advertising was used by Denver's Better Business Bureau. It hired a man with a sandwich board ("Don't get hooked by phony wholesale offers") to parade outside the advertiser's store...
Perry Miller, professor of American Literature, has refused to speak at the University of Washington because of the Seattle institution's recent ban to lectures by Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer...
...February 26, Victor Weisskopf, professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, became the first to boycott the University for its ban on Oppenheimer...
...wise decision by the state censers to ban the movie Desires on Sundays reveals the consistency of their policies, which we have often had the pleasure of seeing put into action. The movie begins at the presentation of a morality play at Salzburg. But soon the protagonists, a ballerina who is a helpless dope addict, a city health official who is a pillar of righteousness, and happy family owing a pharmacy, are entangled in the problem of good and evil. Through a series of decisions the latter characters conquer the evil which grips the ballerina and involves, by extension...