Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Students disappointed by Athletic Director Bill Bingham's edict closing. Weld Boathouse and the swimming pool to women this summer may take heart, since mixed paddling in the tiled emporium, feature of the Indoor Athletic Building, will be permitted Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights...
...talking James Caesar Petrillo, boss of the 140,000 union musicians in the U.S., thundered out an edict last week that shook two giant branches of the amusement industry. He told the American Federation of Musicians convention in Dallas, Tex. that union musicians will be forbidden to make records for juke boxes or radio shows after Aug. 1. If carried out, this order would be a body blow to the coin-machine business, a serious problem to smaller radio stations...
Most of the 70-odd entrants had long ago laid in their supply of special racing fuel, but officials of the Middle Atlantic Outboard Association last week agreed that use of the gas would be a violation of the spirit of the Government edict...
Brown's messages beamed at the U.S. could be heard, though faintly, at various points on the Malay Peninsula. "The effect of Mr. Brown's broadcasts," said the edict, "was detrimental to local public morale. . . ." Said the Ministry of Information spokesman: "Objective reporting and the local situation are irreconcilable...
...edict went on to say that "the manner of Mr. Brown's broadcasts over a period of months led the authorities to regard him as persona non grata." It appeared that Cecil Brown had been arguing with the censors, as he had argued before in Rome and also in Cairo. His silencing in Singapore, however, was the first case of an Allied reporter of known integrity being denied the use of the Allied radio...