Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...owners, thoroughly acceptable to Judge Landis, include Casey Stengel, the Bees' manager; Max C. Meyer of Brooklyn, manufacturer of Richelieu pearls; and Francis Ouimet, Boston's idol who was recently exalted to golf's brand-new Hall of Fame. With new working capital (Judge Landis had forbidden Grocer Adams to put any more sugar into the club), the Bees may sprout new wings, buzz up out of the second division for the first time in seven years...
...Christian evangelists who go to the tribal districts of China's Far Western frontier. Mission universities are now backed in every possible way so that they may train brains for the new China. Their 1940-41 enrollment is a record 7,734, up 20% from peacetime 1937. Once forbidden by law to require religious study, they can now make the weekly compulsory Sun Yat-sen memorial meetings a forum for religious education...
...Practically all Protestant church services have been forbidden and nearly every Protestant school in the country has been closed, including the interdenominational seminary in Madrid and El Porvenir ("The Future"), the Protestant college...
...Rome last week heavy contingents of Italian troops broke up a demonstration before the U.S. Embassy, then ostentatiously stood guard day & night. Italian officers were forbidden to speak to U.S. attachés. U.S. films were banned from Italy. Professor Guido Manacorda of the University of Florence made a speech before the Italian Center for American Studies in which he called the U.S. "a civilization of robbers, the godless, the divorcees, the gangsters, the lynchers, the strikers and the unemployed...
Reactions to the revelation that the University had forbidden a Negro athlete to participate in a contest with a team from the Naval Academy came from three sources yesterday as undergraduates formed to protest, the H. A. A. explained its action, and the Navy officials denied responsibility for the whole matter...