Word: forbid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally the Premier gave Communist and other propaganda agents in France this warning: "Hitlerian Germany, Fascist Italy and Communist Russia forbid democratic propaganda in their lands. It is their right as sovereign States. The French Republic, whose patience has perhaps been too easygoing, will henceforth watch and render impossible any acts that arise outside of the country's own heart...
...board, also to curtail unlimited discretion in construing and administering the Act, and to make specific the jurisdictional limits of the Board." Specifically: to restrict or abolish NLRB's power to void contracts between employers and unions, require NLRB to recognize craft lines in designating bargaining units, forbid it to sanction independent or "company" unions, reduce its quasi-judicial powers...
...Manhattan last week one Philip Shafer, 21, began a campaign. Object: to persuade State Departments of Education to forbid teachers to pull moppets' ears. Philip Shafer, who went to Virginia elementary schools and spent one year at University of Virginia, arrived in Manhattan last year to look for a job. Failing to find permanent employment, he became convinced his big ears were the reason. Thereupon he went to Plastic Surgeon James Stotter. Dr. Stotter said that 50% of cases such as Philip Shafer's are traceable to bad habits (e. g. wearing one's hat riding...
...There are some things we cannot surrender!" cried British Labor Party Leader Clement Attlee. "Life without liberty is not life. If war should come - God forbid - we must all meet it with courage...
...first surrender 25% of his capital. Then, after he has liquidated the rest of his assets, generally at considerable loss, he must either buy German goods for his personal use abroad (and pay 100% tax) with the remainder or accept German blocked-marks in exchange, since Nazi currency restrictions forbid the export of more than $12-$24 in cash after payment of passage. These blocked-marks may be sold only to the German Government Bank at a 92% discount. Last week it was revealed that since the start of the Nazi regime more than $500,000,000 worth of refugee...