Word: forbid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called Robinson-Patman Bill, one of a score of measures introduced in this session of Congress with the avowed intention of undercutting the advantages of large-scale merchandising. The "little businessmen" were received with vociferous sympathy. Senator Borah marked the occasion by introducing still another bill intended to forbid selling more cheaply to large buyers than to small ones. Texas' Representative Patman cried: "You are the first victims of monopoly." Said Maryland's Senator Tydings: "Small business is being crushed to the wall in a deliberate campaign...
...ponderous record which might be used to prove that: 1) In time of foreign war the U. S. should not trade with or finance belligerents; 2) There should be a limitation on war profits; 3) Munitions-making should be under government control. Already, however, neutrality bills introduced in Congress forbid war trade and war financing. And the War Department is strenuously opposed to the Government's making munitions a Government monopoly...
...Congress, President and Secretary of State since Italy's Ethiopian campaign sent a great war scare rumbling across the U. S. As in the expiring law, the President in case of war must declare an embargo on arms, ammunition & implements of war against all belligerents, must forbid U. S. ships to carry munitions directly or indirectly to belligerents. He may forbid U. S. citizens to travel on belligerent ships except at their own risk, may close U. S. ports to belligerent ships as bases of supply, to belligerent submarines for any purpose. The new bill supplements these provisions...
...permanent act must be passed. There is little or no Washington agreement on the terms of such long-range legislation. The temper of returning Congressmen was last week decidedly in favor of fixing by law what the U. S. should do in case of a war abroad, namely to forbid export of arms and materials to all warring nations alike. The State Department felt acutely that executive discretion will be necessary lest the U. S. by indiscriminate embargoes put weaker nations at such a disadvantage that international bullies should be encouraged to attack them. Fear of Congress that flexible neutrality...
...instead of the current $11 premium for every $100 they pay their men. Some mines of low-profit margin have already shut down. Others threaten to do so. Mineowners and miners, who face loss of employment, were last week beseeching California's insurance commissioner to forbid any such rate upping on account of silicosis hazards...