Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after the President's pronouncement against lawyer-lobbying. Michigan's eloquent Senator Vandenberg flipped out of his desk an antilobbying bill of his own design. The Vandenberg measure would: 1) prohibit National Committeemen of either party from practicing law before Government departments and 2) prevent any Government employe from soliciting funds for his party. The President shrewdly took the Republican bill under his large political wing, suggested that the first prohibition be expanded to include all Government has-beens...
...third and last important obstacle to newspaper code was the question of child labor. Almost all U. S. newspapers use newsboys, of which there are 570,000 in the U. S. All NRA codes signed so far prohibit child labor. Newspapers resent being told not to use newsboys. Last week, the Bronx Home News discharged 100 newsboys who had tried to organize a carriers' union...
...more than $50,000,000. This proposal sounded almost Capitalistic compared to what young Senator Gerald P. Nye, as bleak a personality as the plains of his North Dakota, told reporters he wanted to do. Far from permitting an individual to receive $1,000,000 in income, he would prohibit any man from accumulating more than $1,000,000 capital. "At the last session," said he, "I proposed a levy of 55% on fortunes of more than $1,000,000. My disposition now is to make the levy practically confiscatory...
...quite enough. He is likely to look behind the surface of this curt manifesto and to find there nothing but timidity. If it is a legal tangle that University Hall fears, then let it look to the law, and discover that there is nothing in it to prohibit the sort of thing in question. If, as is very likely, University Hall is clinging to tradition in the fear that dining hall decorum will be upset by the entrance of liquor, and in the fear that the name of Harvard University will thereby gather no grace, let it consider these ancient...
...parallel to, although not wholly caused by, the profusion and unrepresentative character of their laws. For this reason they must be dealt with cautiously in most administrative matters, and especially in those which are sumptuary. But they are by now so thoroughly disgusted with the immediate effects of prohibition, and so willing to eschew the saloon if a satisfactory alternative presents itself, that the framing of wise liquor legislation is a matter or profound social importance. That legislation must set at the beginning a far frontier of government control upon which no one will dare to encroach; specifically, it should...