Word: prohibitions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though their readers may be unaware of the fact, newspapers go to great lengths to be circumspect whenever they report lotteries: U.S. postal laws prohibit news of lotteries. News of Irish Sweepstakes winners is usually lifted out of any editions going through the mail. But a news story which broke two months ago in Ahoskie, N.C. was something different. It involved a raffle, but the point was that a Negro who had drawn the winning number had.been refused the prize, a Cadillac...
...hostels for aging and infirm cows. But it seemed unlikely that Hindu India would outlaw cow slaughter. Mohandas Gandhi, a cow protector from way back, explained somewhat cattily: "India is a land not only of Hindus but of Moslems, Sikhs, Parsees, Christians and Jews. If cow slaughter can be prohibited in India on religious grounds, why can't Pakistan then prohibit [Hindu] idol worship in Pakistan on similar grounds...
...Government, the Department of Agriculture and the Mexican Government. But they saved their real whizbangs for a fellow dealer, Kansas City's Ferd Owen. When they had worked off their wrath, they got Texas' Representative Wingate Lucas to draft an odd bill for Congress. It would prohibit export of mules except by Government permit...
...latest blow struck in the name of the sanctity of the American way of life, the House Veterans Affairs Committee recently approved a rider which will prohibit the use of any GI Bill educational funds to Communists, Communist sympathizers, or anyone whose allegiance is to a nation "subservient" to Russia. If this should become law, no longer might American colleges be burdened with government-financed veterans who are subversive in the eyes of Parnell Thomas and other defenders of the democratic tradition...
...United States," he continued, "is already shipping 25 million tons per year." Professor Mason wondered whether American industrial needs might prohibit any further additions to this figure...