Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shortly after TIME, July 24 (with Countess Ciano on the cover) appeared, all Italian newsstands were forbidden to display foreign publications so that they could be seen by the public...
This week, however, ear-to-the-ground Neville Chamberlain told the House that Cabinet Ministers, forbidden since 1906 to hold directorships in public companies, would henceforth be obliged to give up also their directorships in private companies (unincorporated companies not required to issue annual reports). It was revealed that the hardest hit Minister, shipping tycoon Lord President of the Council Viscount Runciman, had already given up six important private directorships...
...celebrations ended last week, Ramón Serrano Suñer won his greatest victories to date. Cabinet decree suddenly suspended further public meetings, called up groups of officers who had been demobilized at the end of the war, speeded the Army's reorganization. Forbidden were all gatherings except Catholic religious processions and services. Only with the written permission of Senor Serrano could meetings be held. Only if he agreed could descriptions of such meetings be published. Another blow for independent Generals and Carlists, Senor Serrano's decrees made it plain that the Falangists were winning the peace...
...many times after the War to respect the language, customs and education of the Germans she was acquiring, scarcely had Fascism begun to operate in Italy before the South Tyrolese became one of the worst treated minorities in Europe. In an effort to Italianize the district, German schools were forbidden, German newspapers outlawed, German place names changed (Bozen, for instance, became Bolzano), even German surnames on tombstones were effaced...
...great worry in Sonja Henie's life is that she will kill or maim herself at her very dangerous profession. To keep the ice clear of objects that might send her arsy-versy when she is traveling at 35 m.p.h., her troupe is forbidden to wear hairpins, the electrical superstructure over the rink is scrupulously vacuumed. Among Sonja's skating shoes, of white calf lined with chamois which cost her $45 a pair, and her skates, which are made by John E. Strauss of St. Paul, Minn, (sometimes described as "the master skate man of the world...