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Xerxes relates that he had difficulties with some of his subjects who worshipped forbidden gods, but that he "sapped the foundations" of the outlaw temples, restored the cult of the Zoroastrian god Ahuramazda. The Institute's Orientalists took this to mean that Xerxes' father, Darius, who probably heard the preaching of Zoroaster himself, enforced the new religion on unwilling priests and they, at Darius' death, tried to return to their old ways...
...Army officers are forbidden to recommend any appropriations not provided in the budget. At the time of General Hagood's testimony the budget had not, however, been prepared...
...ladies in waiting attended for Queen Mary to see if everything was all right. She reported favorably to Her Majesty, who then sent for the script. 'Dear, dear,' she said. 'There are only two plays that I wanted to see and I am forbidden to see either of them.' " Concluded Playwright Housman proudly: "They were my play and Shaw's Apple Cart." To Father Charles Edward Coughlin, who called him "a servant of the money changers," New York's Representative John Joseph O'Connor, sent the following telegram: "If you will please come...
...reserved to the States or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the 10th Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited. None to regulate agricultural production is given, and therefore legislation by Congress for that purpose is forbidden. "It is an established principle that the attainment of a prohibited end may not be accomplished under the pretext of the exertion of powers which are granted. . . . Resort to the taxing power to effectuate an end which is not legitimate, not within the scope of the Constitution, is obviously inadmissible...
...such smartcharts as the New Yorker, such pseudo-smart-charts as Ballyhoo, smart publishers are beginning to see that anything (within reason) goes. The Bedroom Companion, or A Cold Night's Entertainment: Being A CURE for Man's Neuroses, A SOP to His FRUSTRATIONS, A Nightcap of Forbidden Ballads, Discerning PICTURES, Scurrilous Essays, in fine A Steaming Bracer for THE FORGOTTEN MALE sounded like a bold bid for man's attention. Readers who were won by its ballyhoo found it only a mildly entertaining, conventionally improper, publisher's stunt...