Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bill In Austin, a bill was introduced in the Texas Senate to prohibit newspapers from "displaying women's naked legs." Author of the bill was State Senator Olan R. Van Zandt, a blind...
...Tercentenary the keynote was a loud protestation of tolerance, liberalism, and fair play. Upon President Conant's return from England the issue must be put up to him frankly and squarely. Whatever lapses of virtue take place at Harvard can never be curtailed by a rule which does not prohibit but merely shouts out the terms: "DOUBLE OR NOTHING...
...been a great deal said about oil. The plain reason why an oil sanction was not put in force was that enormous quantities of oil came from a country that isn't a member of the League of Nations and which we had no reason to believe would prohibit the exportation of oil. This country is the United States...
...cotton. Last week news of the U. S. tariff boost caused Yoshihisa Shikamura, managing director of Japan's great Fuji Gas Spinning Co., to exclaim: "Our cotton industry will suffer a severe blow, and it is necessary to take immediate countermeasures. It would be impossible to prohibit all American cotton imports, but we can reduce them by 20% or 30%, by substituting cotton from Egypt, Brazil, Manchukuo and China...
...last week. The two teams, Detroit Red Wings and Montreal Maroons, skated onto the ice at 8:30 p. m. At the end of the three standard 20-minute periods, neither team had made a goal. Because the rules in the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup playoffs prohibit ties, they went on playing...