Word: prohibit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...and/or expressed in the acts of Governor Woodring, are flagrantly lawless, and are a grave threat to the credit and prosperity of the entire district which the Kansas City Star claims to serve. . . . We were told that it was the purpose [of the Kansas bank commissioner, in trying to prohibit sale of Cities Service stock] to throw our companies into the hands of receivers and oust us from the State of Kansas. I think we will be able to prove that the Kansas City Star instigated all of this . . . and that Governor Woodring was a mere tool . . . forced...
Kansas law exempts from State regulation stocks listed on the big-city stock exchanges. The amendment permits the banking commission to prohibit sales of even such listed stocks. The Cities Service lawyers spent most of their energy arguing, not against the law, but against Commissioner Newcomer's motives. They said he had been influenced by "scandal mongers and gossips," had acted arbitrarily merely to help Governor Woodring in his fight for lower gas rates in Kansas, had inquired of the Investment Bankers Association for information on Cities Service* after ordering its suspension, and had written to the Chicago Stock...
...picture of misery and destitution which one-legged Brand A. Scott, vice president of the West Virginia Mine Workers' Union, last week set before a special Senate committee initiating an inquiry into unemployment insurance. Witness Scott declared that West Virginia miners work under "yellow-dog" contracts which prohibit their joining a labor union on pain of dismissal. Against him, he said, were pending 121 court injunctions to bar him from unionizing in West Virginia coal fields. Said he: "These people live under a state of terrorism. This is forced labor, . . . We want work at an American wage or unemployment...
...nation's S. P. C. A.'s, Manhattan's especially, last week prepared to invoke state criminal codes to prohibit the sale of baby chicks as Easter toys, since few grown-ups know how to feed or bed them, and children squeeze, trample, stuff, chase them to early death. First result of S. P. C. A. pressure was Newark, N. J.'s health office order last week prohibiting sale of Easter chicks because "many died in stores and store windows...
...whatever the final conclusion may be," the Councillors were "strongly of the opinion that the Church should not seek to impose its point of view as to the use of contraceptives upon the public by legislation or any other form of coercion; and especially should not seek to prohibit physicians from imparting such information to those who in the judgment of the medical profession are entitled to receive it." While the majority held that abstinence in marriage cannot be relied upon, they also pointed out that there is an element of uncertainty in all contraceptive methods. They particularly warned...