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...Jewish booksellers were forbidden to 1) sell books to anyone except Jews, 2) besmirch the reputations of Aryan German authors by selling their works...
Adolf Hitler exploded indignantly when Carl von Ossietzky, famed German pacifist, was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize while still a prisoner of the Third Reich (TIME, Nov. 30 et seq.). The decision of the awarders was reviled as "an insult to the German people." Nazis were forbidden thereafter to accept a Nobel Prize, were told that in future the Government would award similar prizes for Germans only...
...Soviet Government negotiated a deal with the versatile Hammers. They were forbidden to export their rubles, but they might buy with their profits antique furniture, jewels, paintings, etc. There soon appeared in Manhattan a swank emporium known as the Hammer Galleries, its showcases filled with Sevres vases, jeweled Easter eggs, enameled cups and other bourgeois impedimenta of Tsarist nobility. Knowing the political sympathies of its likeliest customer, the Hammer Galleries plasters its walls with double eagles and other imperial symbols...
...dynamite in that famous editorial was the little word, "sex." Two months later Mr. Bok soothed his sensitive readers with: "The forbidden word in this magazine will remain forbidden until conditions of absolute necessity force it to become otherwise." Mr. Bok permitted sex to rear its ugly head again in January 1909 when he published a full-page article by blind Helen Keller giving medical statistics of the results of syphilis and gonorrhea, but not mentioning either disease by name...
President Frank Gillmore of Actors' Equity had forbidden Equity members of the cast to take part in the unsanctioned production. Singers got around Gillmore's rule by singing their lines from the audience. A Negro chorus gave tongue beautifully from the back of the house. Somebody in a box helped out with an accordion and for an hour and a half people felt something of that sympathetic union with the actors that directors dream about. When the opera ended, three Broadway producers rushed backstage to angle for a contract. None was signed, but a hastily assembled committee raised...