Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reader Henry evidently failed to consider the fact that lynchings in America are not approved or incited by the authorities. They are forbidden by law and condemned by a majority of American citizens; whereas persecution of the minorities in Germany is fostered and undertaken by the state as a part of its national policy. . . . Such an analogy is absurd...
...important point for other employers was that NLRB, suspecting connivance to defeat Consolidated workers' preference for C. I. O., had forbidden the company to deal with A. F. of L.'s unions. In finding that Consolidated should deal with both A. F. of L. and C. I. O. for their respective members, the Court presumably left intact the principle that NLRB may void contracts when collusion is sufficiently proved. But Justices Reed and Black took pains to dissent, say the Board did retain this power-thus implying that the majority might think...
Dancing is forbidden, as is the company of women; only mothers and sisters are tolerated. "But the vows are in no way permanent," said Rosenberg, "they are just for the present." Frankly as an experiment, the members have considered forming a summer camp far from the influence of feminine foibles. "We have no motto, nothing as silly as that," went on Rosenberg, "and no vows of chastity...
...Deal, particularly through Jesse Jones, keeps egging banks to lend more. They cannot, say bankers, because industry just does not want to borrow, despite interest rates at record lows. Practically every other avenue to bank profits is similarly closed. Underwriting is forbidden, pinched volume on the stockmarket has reduced security and brokerage loans, the huge flow of gold, which has to be invested in short-term loans for liquidity, produces virtually no income (interest on 91-day Treasury bills, for example, is only .027%). The few big banks doing well today are those like Chicago's Continental Illinois National...
...mail-order houses and independent exercise of handicrafts. . . . Jewish shops operated in violation of this order will be closed by the police" [and presumably turned over to Aryans]. He planned ultimately to move into ghettos all Jews who can or must tolerate life in Germany. And Jews were also forbidden to go to theatres, concert halls, art galleries, public schools, high schools, universities...