Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amount to ?500,000." The next great international exhibition at the Royal Academy's Burlington House will be of Chinese art, scheduled for next winter. Collector Eumorfopoulos has agreed to serve on the committee. He will sail for China next month to help choose some of the famed Forbidden City treasures which the Nationalist Govern-ment has offered to lend...
...soon as the cold which confined him for two days to the White House had abated, he went to his offices, held a conference with his newshawks. They were forbidden to smoke because of the delicate state of the President's nose. Then he took up the affairs of Congress. He called in Vice President Garner, Senate Leader Robinson, Speaker Byrns and Chairman Buchanan of the House Appropriations Committee, convinced them that he must be given $4,000,000,000, without any strings tied to it, for putting men to work. Reason: The manner of spending...
When Mr. Chief Justice Hughes delivered an hour-long decision declaring unconstitutional that section of the National Industrial Recovery Act under which President Roosevelt had forbidden the interstate shipment of hot oil (TIME, Jan. 14), he had for an audience his eight associates, a handful of lawyers, a few newshawks and a chamber half filled with newlyweds, schoolboys and sightseers. Most of Congress was in the Senate chamber listening to Louisiana's Long start his anti-New Deal campaign. Last week on second thought Senators and Representatives realized they might have spent their time more profitably in listening...
...flowered brassieres and wrap-around shorts, supposedly copied from the modest, knee-length pareu that Tahitian women wear. Last week U. S. manufacturers were plugging "Tahitian pareos" for the Florida socialite trade. But by a cruel irony, in Tahiti itself, biggest of the French Society Islands Tahitian women were forbidden to wear indecent pareus. Instead they were supposed to wear imported French cotton dresses...
...Hampton case. "Congress cannot delegate legislative power to the President." And in "Hampton v. U. S.": "If Congress shall lay down by legislative act an intelligible principle to which the person or body authorized to fix such rates is directed to conform, such legislative action is not a forbidden delegation of legislative power." Such contradictions illustrate the trials and tribulations of a judge. V. H. Kramer...