Word: forbid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eddyville penitentiary, was seeking legal authority to make the railroad accept 25 shipments of horse collars & harness which it had refused. But the issue at stake was far bigger than it looked. The railroad's refusal was based on the Ashurst-Sumners Act, passed in 1935, forbidding the shipment of convict-made goods into states which forbid its sale...
...Congress may prevent interstate transportation from being used to bring into a state articles the traffic in which the state has constitutional authority to forbid, and has forbidden, in its internal commerce...
...Congress, to help stop bloody war in the Chaco jungles, authorized the President to forbid shipment of U. S. arms and munitions to Bolivia and Paraguay. President Roosevelt promptly proclaimed such an embargo, kept it in force until November 1935. Last January Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. and others were indicted for selling 15 machine guns to Bolivia during the embargo. In defense they argued that Congress had improperly delegated its power to the President. A Federal District judge in Brooklyn agreed with them, dismissed the indictment. The Government appealed to the Supreme Court...
Another surprise witness last week was Joseph B. Eastman, now back as an active ICCommissioner after a turn as Railroad Coordinator. Mr. Eastman used the intricate chain of terminal transactions to make the point that public regulation was defeated in that the ICC could, if it saw fit, forbid MOP to buy the properties, but it could not save MOP from loss...
...Mich, a woman was arrested for sponsoring beano games last year (TIME, Nov. 25, 1935), elsewhere officials have winked at the game if it violated antigambling statutes. The Catholic Bishop of Albany, N. Y., Most Reverend Edmund F. Gibbons, made news last week by becoming the first prelate to forbid such gambling on Catholic property. Wrote he of the game, in which anything from $1 up may be won by filling five numbered squares in a row with beans as the numbers are drawn and called by the banker: "The game of bingo in this diocese has ceased...