Word: forbidden
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Revolutionary for its times was Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum. Only five years previously the Holy See had itself forbidden Canada's Catholics to join the Knights of Labor (forerunner of the A.F. of L.), and it took the prompt and vigorous intervention of the late great James Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore to keep the Vatican from extending the ban to U.S. Catholics. In 1887 Dr. Edward McGlynn, pastor of Manhattan's biggest Catholic parish, had been excommunicated for supporting Henry George's single-tax proposals.* And ten years after Rerum Novamm's publication...
...meaningless, as they depended on where you were measuring from; he would extend the patrol to whatever limits he felt necessary for defense of the Western Hemisphere. He added significantly that, although the Neutrality Act barred merchant ships from the combat zone, U.S. warships were free to enter the forbidden waters...
...Schulenburg's return from a long stay in Berlin the Russian press made two significant announcements that: 1) 12,000 German troops had landed in Finland, within 50 miles of the Russian base at Hanko; 2) since March 18 shipment of war materials across the U.S.S.R. had been forbidden...
...strictures were chiefly aimed to make the outlets more independent of the networks. Chains were forbidden to use more than one outlet in any area, or control more than one group of networks. The latter meant that NBC must choose be tween its Red and Blue networks, probably sell or disband Blue...
...point that Christianity flourished in 16th-Century Japan after the evangelism of St. Francis Xavier, when the authorities suspected that it might be preparing the way for the conquest of Japan by European countries as the Philippine Islands had been conquered. For more than two centuries, Christians were forbidden to enter Japan on pain of death. With Japanese at the helm of the church, the political threat to Christianity is minimized...