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Tough, able Sidney Holland invoked a set of emergency regulations. He used his powers sparingly, but in some instances suspended the right of assembly, public speech or public print. Newspapers and radio stations were forbidden to interview strikers. Other unions were not allowed to hold public discussions of the strike issues or on the emergency regulations. Anyone giving aid & comfort to strikers or their families was threatened with jail. But police did not lay a finger on the Red bosses...
...Prime Minister Malan hoped for Nazi victory in World War II, now disdains foreign opinion and despises Britain's liberal tradition. He is high priest of apartheid, which means "apartness"; social contact and intermarriage between racial groups is forbidden...
...Complete Boiler Plant. The apparatus also handles sabotage and espionage, spreading discontent, and setting off occasional riots among the West Germans. But its prime project is illegal trade-to use the U.S.-supported industrial economy of Western Germany as an arsenal for Communism. West Germans are forbidden to sell arms, munitions-making machinery and important strategic items to Red territory. But many West Germans have been skirting the ban. During the first six months of the Korean war, West German trade with Communist China jumped 2,700%; iron & steel exports to the Chinese Reds alone went from nearly zero...
Stanley Amborski was sure that his father, a printing-plant employee, could fix it up so that he would not have to go back to Fort Leonard Wood. His family visited him en masse, brought him forbidden foods. Stanley asked other visitors for candy. Most of the time he lay back, unsmiling but unworried. Ahead of him was a thorough physical and psychiatric examination...
...Forbidden Past (RKO Radio) is set in New Orleans during the gaslight era, when connoisseurs of showboat melodrama might have taken it seriously. The moss-hung script casts Ava Gardner as Barbara Beaurevel, a fiery belle scheming to win back the Yankee doctor (Robert Mitchum) who has scorned her and married another...