Word: forbids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...each emergency year to pay teachers' salaries; a permanent federal fund of $100,000,000 annually to help relatively poor states raise educational levels. The bill would increase teachers' salaries, bar cuts in state school budgets, leave distribution of federal funds to state authorities, forbid Federal control of schools...
...Against economic pressure the Swiss know they can cut off supplies of valuable precision instruments which they are making for Germany; they can forbid the Axis use of vital railroads between Germany and Italy...
...President, in my judgment the Congress of the United States and the President are headed toward a bitter conflict. ... I am fearful we are going to have disunity. . . . God forbid that there should be such disunity...
...pirating. It can only be done by a direct exercise of authority. This authority must be based to prevent such steals as the one which occurred in Detroit recently when 52 toolmakers were lured from their jobs by a thirty cent hourly wage bribe. It must be used to forbid employers from hiring away workers except by express permission of the production authorities. It must train clerks and shopgirls as welders and machinists, and send them where they are most urgently needed. It must assure adequate farm labor to produce the food necessary for maintaining our own civilian and armed...
...invoking) give the Government power to 1) draft both men & women from 18 to 51 for war industry-either from other jobs or from their homes, 2) keep every essential worker at his job, 3) move workers from their homes to sections where labor shortages are acute, 4) forbid employers to dismiss essential workers, 5) force employers to hire through Government agencies. The U.S. bill is slightly milder, but Government officials admit that it will give McNutt "distributory control over the labor supply" and "power to freeze labor...