Word: forbid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secret that the President would like very much to have Mexico's States modify their severe anti-Catholic laws which keep that great Church hamstrung. Chihuahua permits only one priest in the entire State; Veracruz one for each 100,000 of population. Both forbid religious services entirely but services are always going on. One morning last week in Orizaba, police, acting on undetermined authority, surrounded a house where Father José María Flores was illegally celebrating Mass. As his congregation of 58 women and four men began to leave, the police opened fire. Down dropped 14-year...
Neither the law of the country nor the law of his religion would forbid a second wife. In Albania, the signing of the marriage contract by the bride's father and by the groom, makes a marriage. It is legal and binding. There is, however, another law relating to marriages. The bride cannot leave her father's house, no matter how legally she may be married, until her husband comes for her, with appropriate ceremony symbolizing marriage by capture. It is known as "taking" the bride. If he never comes she can do nothing about it. When Achmet...
...When he looks again everything is gone, and nobody can reach in or out, the door can't be unlocked (unless you are pretty good at that sort of thing) and finally the postman will not be forced to violate either his conscience or his union rules, which evidently forbid his using...
Just how important those words may prove, no man last week could say but they raised hopes in all those who want to revive NRA. For the Court had apparently given Congress carte blanche to forbid traffic in interstate commerce in any goods not produced under standards of minimum wages, maximum hours of labor, etc. etc., provided states can be induced to forbid the sale of such goods within their own borders...
...Senate did events begin to run in his direction. In 1932 he won Congressional approval of the 20th Amendment of the Constitution, ending "lame duck" sessions of Congress. Then he secured passage of the Norris-LaGuardia bill restricting the powers of courts to grant injunctions in labor cases and forbidding them to entertain suits based on labor contracts that forbid workers to join unions. Next year followed TVA, to insure Government operation of Muscle Shoals for which he had been vainly struggling for a decade; the year after Nebraska's unicameral. One other major reform which he still hopes...