Word: edict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paul B. Finney '50, Band Manager, said last night that the band had received a similar notice from Watson not to perform any skits on the field which might reflect on other colleges. This edict, Finney asserted, would apply to any bandsman dressed up as an Indian, Bear, or Tiger. Finney also claims that there had been repercussions from Dartmouth and University Hall concerning the "Indian that came out of the cocktail glass" the band formed at the Dartmouth game...
Brown University administrators reached an impasse yesterday as the result of open student opposition to President Wriston's decision to enforce a 20-year-old edict on alcohol and women in dormitories...
...result of the edict, all fraternities will get rid of their bars this week. The fraternity system is not expected to survive if the ruling is enforced. Student opinion holds this expectation one of the main reasons behind Wriston's decision to evoke the long-dormant rule...
...reach the $300 billion level, said Wilson, the labor unions, which had already achieved "monopolistic" power to "dominate and control the economy," would have to exercise statesmanship. "If the unions strive only to outdo one another in their demands, and Government-by-edict enforces an endless series of wage increases without regard to industry's costs, it will lead, inevitably, to nationalization of industry...
Because "certain irresponsible persons" were giving the Ku Klux Klan "bad publicity and censure" by wearing bedsheets and masks in the commission of their crimes, Grand Dragon Samuel Green, Atlanta obstetrician, last week issued an Imperial Edict: henceforth Klansmen must not wear masks "upon any street, road or highway in these United States...