Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Petrillo has been searching his nimble brain to find new ways to make radio programs, records and juke boxes play cash-jingling tunes on his union till. His edict against recording did not sound like a true pitch to the broadcasting and recording companies. It sounded more like bargaining bluster. His Dec. 31 deadline coincides with contract renewal time for the record 'makers...
Refreshingly different from other college libraries in its minimum fines and restrictions, Widener is loath to revert to the edict of 1931 and expel every student caught defacing a book. But in view of the wholesale destruction of bound newspaper copies, the cross-hatching of back examination forms, and the tendency to question the statements of unpopular authors with ink and bad taste, the library staff may be forced to apply thumb screws where simple warnings fail. However, even the most stringent regulations would only tax the ingenuity of college doodle bugs; any real amelioration of the situation must come...
Senate guards moved forward uncertainly, and one asked the Senator who was to be removed. "Whoever demonstrated," roared the Senator. Said the cop: "Well, sir, I guess that's everybody." Ferguson rescinded his edict...
Ever since Russia's edict last month forbidding marriage between Russians and aliens, Britain's press and public alike had been indignant over the plight of 15 Russian women who had married British servicemen. Some were the wives of captains and sergeants. One was the wife of Brigadier Gordon Redvers Way, chief of the British military mission to Tiflis in 1942. After a three-day honeymoon in Tiflis, Way was ordered to Cairo, has not seen his wife since. Most of the wives were young and comely, and all were anxious to join their husbands. But the Soviet...
...edict appeared recently on one of the House bulletin boards declaring that the dining hall of that House would no longer be available, with certain exceptions, to College-wide extracurricular activities for purposes of ticket-selling, poll-taking, or any other form of solicitation. Investigation disclosed that the policy on this problem varied considerably from House to House, but that the House Masters are thinking of forming a joint policy that would apply in all dining halls. Should the Masters adopt the drastic Lowell House formula, every one of the College's threescore extracurricular organizations would be placed under...