Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same old Soviet plan which would in effect disarm the West without disarming Soviet Russia. "The U.S. is prepared to go ahead with any discussion or negotiations which give any promise whatever," said Patterson. "But the U.S.S.R. responds to everything we say with its simple nostrum: 'Ban the bomb; trust us Russians...
...long after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its historic ban on segregation in the public schools (TIME, May 24), it broke one of its own traditions. For the first time, the court asked Washington school superintendents to name some Negro candidates to fill vacancies in the court's four-boy squad of pages. Last week, with Chief Justice Warren approving, Court Marshal T. Perry Lippitt selected 14-year-old Charles V. Bush as the Supreme Court's first Negro page...
Kick Upstairs. As Bastille Day (July 14) drew near again, word got around that the Prefect of Police and the new Mendès-France government were not hitting it off well. Baylot wanted to ban the traditional Red parade; some Cabinet ministers disagreed; Socialist supporters of the new regime, though antiCommunist, were anti-tough...
...dope story on 1955-model cars, General Motors protested by canceling all its ads and putting an embargo on all news to America's No. 1 business newspaper (TIME, June 28). The W.S.J. stood its ground, insisted it would continue to dig up news about G.M. despite the ban. Last week G.M. and the W.S.J. announced a truce. General Motors, explained G.M. President Harlow H. Curtice, has been interested only in protecting its "property rights," i.e., its ownership of copyrighted blueprints of new models. "It was never our intention," he added, "to interfere in any way with [the W.S.J...
...Talent for Politics. Recently, Pastor Grüber was criticized-this time by his own church synod-because he appeared at an East German "National Congress," publicly condemned the presence of U.S. atomic cannon in Germany, and called for a ban on nuclear weapons, a step the Russians favor. Pastor Grüber asked the synod to accept his resignation...