Word: forbiddingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Demographer Frank W. Notestein drew lines last week to support a mighty deduction: Germany will never again be able to challenge the world; a steady decline in her population will forbid it. The head of Princeton's Office of Population Research put his careful and complex projections in 300 pages of charts, curves and tables called The Future Population of Europe and the Soviet Union (Columbia University Press; $2.75). Then, in Foreign Affairs for April, he drew some conclusions for the layman...
Despite a few fumbling attempts to forbid the banns, the writers of three of these books insist that the U.S. should prepare for a golden honeymoon with postwar Russia. There is unabashed wooing in Foster Rhea Dulles' The Road to Teheran. More surprising is the headlong courtship of Pitirim A. Sorokin, the Harvard sociologist who was once a member of Kerenski's Cabinet and an unrelenting foe of Lenin and Trotsky. There is nuptial jubilation in Walter Duranty's USSR. But there is little besides gloomy foreboding in David J. Dallin's Russia and Postwar Europe...
...Soldier Vote problem up to the 48 Governors. Congress had said that a Federal overseas ballot could be used only with each State's permission, since State laws variously forbid or would interfere with such a ballot. Asked the President: Will your State approve a Federal ballot to supplement your own? Replied the Governors: five yeses; 14 maybes; 18 probably-nots or definite noes; five don't-knows. These 42 replies in hand, the President mulled what he said was the main question: would the Congressional compromise give any more soldiers the vote than no new legislation...
...first regulation against the hazing of Freshmen was published. However, it did not forbid the Sophomores to acquaint the newcomers with "useful and innocent customs" of the student body...
Nancy Oakes de Marigny, high-styled young daughter of the mysteriously slain Sir Harry Oakes, popped up in Miami and did some explaining: 1) she needs an operation on her mouth, is going back to Nassau to sell her furniture because the Bahamas forbid her to take her inheritance out of the country; 2) playful Husband "Freddie," deported to Havana after the Oakes trial, is not working because Cuba's labor laws governing aliens forbid him to; 3) Freddie "is restless with nothing...