Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chileans who fail to vote are black-listed as civic-duty dodgers and have to pay a 100-peso ($5) fine. Consequently, last week most of them turned out to vote in a typical South American election which picked a successor to stern, small-eyed President Arturo Alessandri Rodriguez, forbidden by law to succeed himself...
...formal war is recognized, the Maritime Commission must see to it that no U.S. bottoms carry munitions, or any other forbidden cargoes, to ports of belligerents. Other agencies prepared for possible emergencies, each in its own domain. SEC, fearful of a stockmarket crisis, conferred with officers of the New York Stock Exchange. The Departments of Agriculture and Commerce, fearful of the effects of war and the Neutrality Act on crops and prices,* studied 1914 precedents and the current state of crops and industry...
...Back from the borders, the Third Reich was an armed camp. Conscripts due for discharge this week were indefinitely retained in the army. With the calling of the new class, 1,500,000 men were in feldgrau from the North Sea to the Danube. All men under 65 were forbidden to leave Germany. All former officers and technicians of the air force were called to the colors. Doctors were required to register their vacation addresses with the police. Hundreds of private motor vehicles were rented or requisitioned and all German farm horses which had completed their harvest work were conscripted...
...will learn those are useful. But it surprises me that you have no fear. It is fundamental to living. You see, we scholars cannot exist wholly in the past any more. They have forbidden it. We must be alert to what is changing around us, even though we cannot understand. They have warned us that the world has come to a sharp turn, and they say even students must be ready for the careening. It's a hard blow, because we have spent so many delightful years in our towers. It's somewhat of a joke that...
...there is only the graveyard as a horizon-all this is contrary to human dignity and can result only in the catastrophic disturbance of relations between nations!" Such language was not calculated to soothe Adolf Hitler, whose help would be most useful in getting Jews out of Germany. Already forbidden to take money with them, German Jews were recently forbidden by new Nazi decrees to take even their household goods and movable possessions. They were ordered to pay on such goods as jewelry, furs and furniture, an export tax of 100%. A further decree barred German dealers from bidding...