Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouble. Two months ago she boldly barged into a Hyde Park meeting for supporters of Leftist Spain wearing her badge, had to be rescued by London bobbies. Last week she incensed the Czechs by strolling the streets of Prague, swastika in her lapel. Display of the Nazi badge is forbidden. Anxious Prague police asked the British Legation to induce Unity to keep her badge out of sight "for her own safety...
...insignia of the Sudetendeutsch Partei. "Fatal bullets struck you, even though you were innocent," he cried. "May your sacrifice be a guiding sign for us." Throaty shouts of "Seig Heil" punctuated the speech of Henlein's stooge, Deputy Karl Hermann Frank, as he defiantly used words from the forbidden Nazi Horst Wessel hymn and roared, "The dead shall rise again because they march in spirit with us in our ranks. Thousands will arise for every one who falls. Whenever the Führer calls on us to stand by for action, we see these dead men also...
...have accomplished what no other French ministers have ever done ... a firm agreement between Great Britain and France to stand together and fight together if and when they must fight." Flashed from London International News Service's Kingsbury Smith: "A new western frontier beyond which Germany will be forbidden to trespass was created today by France and Great Britain, simultaneously with adoption of a program to check Nazi expansion in Europe...
...mayor once stopped the sale of Dreiser's American Tragedy, or as the mayor of Omaha, Neb. more recently clamped down on Mari Sandoz' Slogum House. In England books that come under official displeasure are usually withdrawn by the publishers; in European dictatorships their circulation is forbidden by the state. Recent book bans...
...Deal's harshest reform, the Public Utility Act ordered all utility holding companies to register with SEC under the penalty of being forbidden use of mails or other facilities of interstate commerce. SEC would then have power to control their financial transactions and, under the famed "death sentence" clause, to force simplification of any utility pyramid into a single geographically integrated system with only one intermediary company allowed between the top holding company and actual operating subsidiaries. When most of the utility business refused to register, SEC agreed to hold the Act in abeyance while it brought a test...