Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lancaster, Calif., Chinese Butcher Yackie Mun-choo was fined $150, forbidden to sell meat for two years. Reason: to prevent his hamburger from spoiling, Butcher Yackie embalmed...
...Germán Busch's Cabinet. First Busch acts were to cancel wartime censorship, announce his intention to hold elections, introduce civilians to his Cabinet. But the next year press censorship was made more rigorous, extremist agitation was outlawed. In November groups of more than three were forbidden to congregate on the streets of La Paz (pop. 142,547). When dormant political parties recently began to stir restlessly, President Busch enlarged the Senate from 16 to 24 members, called elections to be held...
...Snow Hill, the patrician estate of socialite J. W. Y. Martin outside Baltimore, last week hawkers peddled rubber horses, balloons, trinkets. Three-card monte games flourished on the lawn in front of the pink colonial mansion. Bookmakers Saratoga Joe, Honest Dan and three-score of their colleagues, forbidden to ply their trade this year, milled around in the crowd, furtively held up their odds on inconspicuous little pasteboard cards. It was the day of the Maryland Hunt Cup race and 15,000 of the Eastern Seaboard's horsy folk, arriving by train, plane, auto and old-fashioned buggy, gathered...
...Belgian pursuit planes terrified passengers in a German transport which they forced down and searched. German planes had been repeatedly observed flying low over forbidden Belgian fortified areas...
...Guild has tried for five years to organize the Times, but the Times has so far refused to consider any contract that does not contain an open-shop clause. The Guild is forbidden by its constitution to accept the open-shop principle, although in contracts with other publishers it has frequently agreed to open-shop conditions by omitting any mention of a "Guild shop" (a modified closed shop). By bringing the home life of the Times into the open the Guild hopes to make it easier for Timesmen to join up, eventually to get a contract...