Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alaska-and Japan-could hear the forbidden news merely by a twist of a short-wave radio dial. Alaska newspapers were forbidden to mention Dutch Harbor casualties until survivors landed in Seattle last week, 22 days after the event...
...late summer of 1941 the middle classes lost their one remaining means of ever influencing the Nazi German State. For every practical purpose the middle-class army-the SA Brown Shirts-was disbanded. It was forbidden to meet or drill. Smith says the SA was disbanded because "it was an organization. An organization is the kernel of political action," and political action by the deceived and squeezed-out middle class might have been against those in power...
...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...
...misunderstanding. The police had issued a formal order to newspapers not to publish: 1) Congress debates on foreign policy and the state of siege; 2) the fact that they were thus forbidden (TIME, June 8). Then the Senate protested, called on Minister of the Interior Miguel J. Culaciati to explain...
...group called themselves the Suquet Sporting & Debating Society (after a deteriorated onetime brothel that preceded Siena), spent their time visiting museums, churches, antiquarian stores, local bars. Though forbidden to go beyond the city limits, Timesman Herbert Matthews and A.P.'s Dick Massock sometimes bicycled as far as 15 miles outside town. "In Italy," says Matthews, "no laws are obeyed, least of all by the Italians." Soberest of the lot, Correspondent Matthews read Gibbons Decline & Fall, worked on a book on Italian Fascism...