Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Courier-Journal, whose Publisher Robert Worth Bingham is Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, and a good Roosevelt friend. The Courier-Journal had its carriers deliver letters to all subscribers', asking them to write to General Johnson "in my behalf" because "reformers are attempting to prohibit through NRA . . . boys under 18 years of age from being gainfully employed." Each newsboy provided the writing paper, picked up the letters next day, carried them by the Courier Journal's office where they were posted to Washington at that company's expense. Grudgingly President Roosevelt yielded...
...begins buying silver on a big scale he will have to buy much of it abroad and very likely pay for it in gold, thus cutting down the amount of silver to be bought. Sop No. 3. The Treasury is authorized to regulate or prohibit trading in silver, and the President to take over all silver in the U. S. But when and whether is left entirely to Administration discretion. Tax. A stamp tax will be placed on each sale of silver (made on or after May 15, 1934) equal to 50% of the seller's net profits. This...
...week to introduce a bill that would not only deprive Sir Oswald of his uniform, but would strip the shirt from his distinguished mother, the very dignified Katharine Maud. Lady Mosley, who used to deplore Sir Oswald as a Laborite, now is his warm supporter. Presenting his bill to prohibit the wearing of uniforms for political purposes, Commander Locker-Lampson cried...
...court has never ruled that the federal government is powerless to prohibit child labor directly, as the present child labor law would prohibit it. Mr. Smith's parallel with the sumptuary Eighteenth amendment is an unfortunate one. The fact is that the eighteenth amendment was passed, and only a national revolt at its philosophy forced its repeal. The eighteenth amendment could not have been passed if its exponents had placed their hopes on the taxing power, or the interstate commerce clause. Behind the present child labor law a very simple strategy is visible; the example of the eighteenth amendment indicated...
What will be the effect of such regulation on the brokers themselves? In the first place, it will tend to cramp if not prohibit the speculative accounts which have been a major source of income to so many stock jobbers. By increasing the technicalities and narrowing the field and its allure, it will cause the business as a whole to simulate the present investment council houses. In other words, it means that the arrow-collar bond-salesman who carried his trade to Westchester weekends and Long Island country clubs has had his day. The brokers of tomorrow will be soberer...