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Dancing is forbidden, as is the company of women; only mothers and sisters are tolerated. "But the vows are in no way permanent," said Rosenberg, "they are just for the present." Frankly as an experiment, the members have considered forming a summer camp far from the influence of feminine foibles. "We have no motto, nothing as silly as that," went on Rosenberg, "and no vows of chastity...
...Deal, particularly through Jesse Jones, keeps egging banks to lend more. They cannot, say bankers, because industry just does not want to borrow, despite interest rates at record lows. Practically every other avenue to bank profits is similarly closed. Underwriting is forbidden, pinched volume on the stockmarket has reduced security and brokerage loans, the huge flow of gold, which has to be invested in short-term loans for liquidity, produces virtually no income (interest on 91-day Treasury bills, for example, is only .027%). The few big banks doing well today are those like Chicago's Continental Illinois National...
...mail-order houses and independent exercise of handicrafts. . . . Jewish shops operated in violation of this order will be closed by the police" [and presumably turned over to Aryans]. He planned ultimately to move into ghettos all Jews who can or must tolerate life in Germany. And Jews were also forbidden to go to theatres, concert halls, art galleries, public schools, high schools, universities...
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...