Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Together all six took their quarrel to the President. He referred them all to Comptroller General McCarl. Mr. McCarl sent them a written opinion several days later. He held that the relatives in the forbidden group were "father, mother, children, brothers and sisters of husband or wife." He held that "direct pecuniary interest" meant "an interest upon which action in the tariff-matter under consideration would be immediately, rather than remotely, reflected...
...them in the form of dividends. Incidentally, this in part explains Henry Ford's willingness to buy all sorts of business enterprises of late, such as his railroad or his huge new development at River Rouge. "Lateral" trusts-i.e., mergers of industries of the same sort-are forbidden by the Sherman Anti-Trust Law on the grounds of restraint of trade. But for the "vertical trust," involving ownership of all productive and transportation facilities needed for manufacture of a product there is no legal prohibition. This is the kind of trust that Henry Ford is creating...
...being carried on at the breakfast table of the White House, where his power ful and penetrating propaganda is being delivered to Members of the Congress who have been previously feasted on buckwheat cakes saturated with New England maple syrup. "Since Eve was tempted by the serpent with the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, never has there been offered to weak and erring humanity such an irresistible temptation as buck wheat cakes and syrup, sweeter than the honey of the Hybla bee. "The seriousness of my charge against the President is accentuated by the fact that the victims...
...Edwin Winterborne, pastor of the Faith Tabernacle at Lebanon, Pa. (TIME, May 19), was forcibly inoculated for diphtheria. Edwin had forbidden his flock to call physicians during an epidemic of the disease; this had resulted in quarantine of the church and of the homes of nine of the flock, by the local authorities. The sick families were then compelled to submit to medical treatment. One Mrs. Charles Roth, who had lost her husband and four children during the epidemic, would not give verbal consent to the inoculation, although she submitted peaceably...
Fears that swimming from the Weld Boathouse float would be forbidden this spring were dispelled yesterday morning after a conference held in the office of the H. A. A. between Mr. Fred W. Moore '93, graduate treasurer of the H. A. A., and Mr. W. H. Geer, director of physical education at the University...