Word: prohibitive
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Antique federal immigration laws, intended to outlaw importation of contract labor and which today prohibit organizations from paying transportation costs of emigres, should be changed. The old quotas must be revised or abandoned. Uncle Sam's refusal to classify the Spanish Loyalists as refugees so that they are ineligible for even temporary haven is a heartless response to the appeal of those first fighters against fascism who now are ringed by Franco, Hitler, and Mussolini. No All American team sparked by Senator Reynolds should be permitted to pull in the welcome must of Ellis Island. Not even the selfish arguments...
...audience cheered the blasts which were made against Willkie's inconsistencies and misstatements. In particular he dwelt on the Republican candidate's remarks before a cattle raising audience that he would prohibit importation's of Argentine canned beef for the navy...
...Filipinos approved the amendment in a plebiscite. Mr. Roosevelt's signature is all that is necessary to make it law - and wily Quezon scarcely anticipates a veto from President Roosevelt. Quezon has also asked and obtained from the Assembly "emergency" powers which give him authority to suppress espionage, prohibit strikes or lockouts, mobilize citizens for whatever productive pusuits he deems necessary. On the subject of the State he has proclaimed: "Organized society is predicated upon the willingness of men to limit their freedom in the interest of the well-being of the entire community." On the subject of Democracy...
...these herbs was wormwood, an excellent stomachic, which by the time of World War I had also acquired a reputation as an aphrodisiac, thereby helping to enrich the firm of Pernod Fils, leading manufacturer of absinthe. In 1914 the publisher of a small Paris newspaper started a campaign to prohibit absinthe, based on the popular beliefs that: 1) wormwood is an aphrodisiac; 2) continued use of aphrodisiacs produces impotence; 3) France is a nation of absinthe sippers; 4) therefore France as a nation is becoming impotent. Frenchmen's mortal fear of impotence, coupled with war hysteria and a falling...
Moslems never drink, because the Prophet told them not to. Hindus seldom do, because they consider it impolite to women and old men. One of the foremost aims of the Indian National Congress has been to introduce prohibition throughout India-as a demonstration that Indians can rule themselves as well as control themselves. British officials have opposed prohibition because liquor excise taxes have recently contributed 25% of provincial revenues. Besides, they say, why prohibit something which is already taboo? But last August the Congress Cabinet of the Bombay Presidency (pop. 26,400) prevailed, and put prohibition into effect...