Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...caught Editor Landry vacationing in England. When he finally got passage home, he was forbidden to cable his family or his paper what ship he would arrive on. So he cabled Johnny Johnstone: ERROR YOUR LAST CROSSING CORRECT. Johnstone got the idea instantly, passed the word along that Landry was on the Aquitania...
...further, more realistic precaution against "Dutch courage," junior officers in the Royal Air Force are allowed only a "strictly limited" amount of wine. Bars in flying schools are now closed all day, treating is banned in messes and drinks are forbidden in private rooms. Penalty for breaking these rules: court-martial...
This week the Ministry of Economic Warfare published a Black List of 278 pro-German persons and companies throughout the world with whom British merchants and shipowners are forbidden to do business, subject to heavy penalties...
Before announcing his neutrality, Mussolini had gone through the motions of an Axis partner about to go to work. He conducted a mobilization so complete that, when they realized its scope, it shocked his people. The nation was blacked out. Coffee was forbidden to all but soldiers, gasoline to all but State officials and the military. All private motor travel was forbidden after September 3. Then, after the neutrality decision, the terrifying atmosphere was relaxed. Italy was ready to defend herself if attacked, was the word. Command of Italy's armies was divided between General Graziani, no disciple...
...worth while to learn the English language, to enjoy in this cursed part of the world the very interesting contents of your recent article (TiME, July 24) about Mussolini & Family. Too bad that our press is forbidden to publish such articles-let me say facts-about "prominent" people; their only task is to lessen the strength of the democracies in the eyes of the masses, and to increase the prestige of the "Axis...