Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Agriculture not to raise the price of farm products to a point that would cause consumers to pay more proportionally for food than in pre-War days, to prohibit the grazing of cattle on land taken out of crop production, were all voted down with ease. One important amendment to the bill was adopted: flood control was added to the things on which Secretary Wallace could spend money, thus opening up to him vast opportunities to alter the natural drainage system of the U. S. The Court. Best oratorical efforts of the debate were devoted to the Supreme Court...
...corrected paper--there politics, perseverance, and ingenuity produce no more results than an effort to ascertain President Conant's telephone number. The graded blue books in Professor Lowes' English 50 were returned. This is an indication that neither the laws of Massachusetts nor the statues of Harvard College prohibit such action. Perhaps this notice will bring to the attention of the academic brains directing the destinies of such courses as Economics A, English 2, English 22 a situation which possibly has escaped them in the press of more important affairs--some of their students would like to see corrected blue...
...means easy for Laval to dissolve the "leagues" and not produce disturbance as for example the street riots of February 1934, but he could disarm them and prohibit semi-military uniforms, which he did willingly and skillfully...
...firms accused of dealing with the Central Powers, wrote to his most intimate friend & adviser, Col. Edward Mandell House: "I am, I must admit, about at the end of my patience with Great Britain and the Allies. . . . I am seriously considering asking Congress to authorize me to prohibit loans and restrict exportations to the Allies. It is becoming clear to me that there lies latent in this policy the wish to prevent our merchants getting a foothold in markets which Great Britain has hitherto controlled and all but dominated...
...Pittman-McReynolds bill would further allow the President to prohibit shipment to belligerents of abnormal amounts of any commodities essential to war, except food and medical supplies. Kinds and "normal" amounts of commodities would be fixed by him. Modifying its mandatory embargo on loans & credits, the bill would empower the President to permit ordinary commercial credits and short-term obligations necessary to normal business...