Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...based on clothes, the Assembly last week declared that "to expose the person or the private parts thereof" in the presence of two or more persons of the opposite sex who are similarly unclothed shall be a misdemeanor." The proponents of the bill carefully explain that it does not prohibit nudity in the theater, since audiences are decently attired. Perhaps the law was suggested by Actors' Equity as protection from non-professional competition...
...last session of Congress President Roosevelt vetoed a bill to prohibit export of tin-bearing scrap. Scrap dealers expect new agitation for an embargo at this session, are confident that President Roosevelt will oppose it because he is trying to develop export trade. But last fortnight, Raymond Moley, the President's friend and counselor, published as the lead article in his magazine Today a sharply critical analysis of Japan's scrap buying by Ray Tucker, longtime Washington newshawk. Reporter Tucker concluded that Japan's demand for scrap was unmistakably for the purpose of 1) modernizing her army...
With thunderclouds of labor warfare forming on the textile front, the National Association of Manufacturers reveals a plan to propose federal legislation outlawing general and sympathetic strikes. Similar to the British Trade Disputes Act of 1927, the program hopes to prohibit all strikes and lockouts where "the object is other than in furtherance of a trade dispute in industry...
...bill to empower the Governor to use the National Guard in any manner he chooses and to prohibit State courts from interfering. If a judge dares to issue an injunction against the use of troops, he may be fined, thrown into jail...
...stop paying with alacrity. Said ex-Manager Hart for the record: "I protest most energetically against the Cuban Government's action, which despoils the company of its administration and deprives it of the legitimate enjoyment of its properties without legal basis, thus violating the constitutional laws which prohibit confiscation of property...