Word: forbidding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Club of West Chester State Normal School of West Chester, Pennsylvania. Urged on by accusations from the local American Legion, the principal of the college undertook to discharge two professors who had joined in the Club's discussion of the Coolidge policy regarding Nicaurauga, also employing his authority to forbid further meetings of the organization...
Dissenting Opinion. Associate Justices Holmes, Brandeis, Sanford and Stone dissented. With brief eloquence Mr. Holmes, 86,* wrote: "We fear to grant power and are unwilling to recognize it when it exists. . . . The truth seems to me to be that, subject to compensation when compensation is due, the legislature may forbid or restrict any business when it has a sufficient force of public opinion behind it. Lotteries were thought useful adjuncts of the State a century or so ago; now they are believed to be immoral and they have been stopped. Wine has been thought good for man from the time...
...owner's hand. This volume is the gift of Mrs. Norton Perkins in memory of Norton Perkins '98. Apparently the author of "The Ancient Mariner" shared in some degree the modern schoolboy's dislike for the Latin language, for we find inscribed on the fly leaf: "Heaven forbid! This work should not exist in its present form and language! Yet I cannot avoid the wish that it had been, during the reign of James the first, moulded into an heroic poem in English Octava Rima...
...Young says that he and Governor Trumbull belong to an island club the rules of which forbid members wearing ties or collars while on the island. For infraction the offending member gets a ducking. "Wouldn't it be fine if New England could have a dinner with its collars, and, neckties, off..?" *The textile groups with boots and shoes constitute 31% of New England industry. The balance is spread over 200 classifications, all highly localized. Thus Maine and Massachusetts make 75% of New England paper and wood pulp. Rhode Island and Massachusetts make 99% of the jewelry...
Then comes the sort of "ultimate day of reckoning" that has just led the Pennsylvania Bureau of Securities to forbid the G. L. Miller & Co. Inc. from doing further business in that state. A few days ago Ohio also revoked this concern's business license...