Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...title when he married the Dame de Sark, Mrs. Sibyl Collings Beaumont, in 1929, worked with her to keep the island and its 542 inhabitants just as they had been when Sark was created as a seigneury by Queen Elizabeth in 1565. They perpetuated the island's ban on automobiles, female dogs and homing pigeons, discouraged movies and newspapers, levied tithes of grain, sheep and wool...
...White House press conference, Ike, again observing his ban on personal invective, generalized his retort to Butler, but his generalization cut wide and deep. Said he: "I think too often politicians look into a looking glass instead of through a window ... I really believe you [reporters] are better judges of interests, breadth of interests, capacities and the kind of things we are trying to do, than some politician who, looking in the glass, sees only reflections of doubt and fear and the kind of confusion that he often tries to create...
...quick meeting. The public outcry was beginning to tell on them. Machinist Stan Wetton got up and said: "Our attitude has become un-Christianlike." The other men nodded. Before they adjourned, the men voted to thank Ed Boyce for being such a good steward-but also to lift the ban on Hewitt. When Hewitt came back from lunch and climbed into his cage, Boyce walked over and said: "O.K., Ron, it's all off." Hewitt smiled and shook Boyce's hand. "I don't bear anyone any malice," said Hewitt in a burst of talkativeness. "Let bygones...
...council's commonest excuses for refusing U.S. proposals are that they would drain Japan's dollar reserves or that the industries concerned are "nonessential." In some cases the reasons make sense, e.g., a Coca-Cola bottling plant is hardly "essential." But in other cases the ban is unreasonable. Examples: ¶ When Studebaker-Packard Corp. wanted permission to erect an auto assembly plant, it argued that many of the cars would be exported, thus strengthening Japan's foreign exchange position. Though Studebaker even agreed not to convert its profits in Japan into dollars unless it also made money...
...armed services, said Dwight Eisenhower, the cadets and midshipmen of West Point and Annapolis are also students. They should therefore .be allowed to debate: "Resolved, that the United States should extend diplomatic recognition to the Communist government of China." At week's end, however, the academies' ban still stood...