Word: forbid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three general plans of action by the University suggest themselves. 1. The authorities could forbid all undergraduates from taking part in businesses selling services to students. In place of this, laundries and pressing shops would employ men as solicitors on a straight percentage basis. While there are no exact figures on the total income under the present system, it is estimated that such a change as this would not substantially alter the amount earned. 2. The financial affairs of student businesses could be opened to the inspection of University Hall. A bond, similar to the one required of applicants...
Argument. Attorneys pleading against cancellation of the gold clauses presented similar arguments: Contracts had been entered into for the payment of gold and Congress had set them aside. Either Congress had no right under the Constitution to set those contracts aside, or if it had the right to forbid payment in gold, the claimants were at least entitled to compensation in devalued dollars for the value of the gold denied them...
...great auditorium of the 817,500,000 palace which Herbert Hoover built for his Department of Commerce was jammed to the doors one day last week. Elbow to elbow sat 2,000 businessmen eager to say their say about whether NRA should permit or forbid price fixing and price control. On the platform presiding over the meeting were Samuel Clay Williams, Chairman of NIRB; Arthur Dare Whiteside and Sidney Hillman, both NIRB members, and their associates...
Quick was Oil Administrator Ickes to point out that this decision invalidated only one small section of the Recovery Act, authorizing the President to forbid shipments of "hot oil" in interstate commerce. It did not invalidate NRA codes, or even the Petroleum Code. Secretary Ickes prepared at once to shift his efforts to control production by using the oil code as his tool. He added however: "I imagine the code's constitutionality will be tested next...
...Enactment of laws to enable banks, mortgage companies, etc., to buy insured mortgages under the terms of the Federal Housing Act. President Roosevelt last week sent letters to 44 Governors pointing out that Administrator Moffett had found that their state laws hampered, if they did not totally forbid, financial institutions from joining in the Federal Government's housing drive...