Word: prohibiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...half ago, might be dismissed as a rara avis if it were not for the fact that the same law was recently brought up in a bill in Minnesota to introduce it there. The State of Nebraska considered the advisability of jailing "sheiks" and "vamps". Now a proposal to prohibit pie is before the legislature of Kansas...
...Each club shall prohibit its undergraduate members and its members-elect (meaning thereby persons notified) from canvassing any undergraduate before the opening of college in his Sophomore year...
...Each club shall prohibit its undergraduate members and its members-elect (meaning thereby persons notified of their election but not yet initiated) from canvassing any undergraduate before the opening of college in his Sophomore year...
...ballot in November. Then I will be able to ask all the Illinois voters this question: "Should the Congress of the United States modify the federal act to enforce the 18th amendment to the constitution of the United States so that the same shall not prohibit the manufacture, sale, transportation, importation, or exportation of beverages which are not in fact intoxicating, as determined in accordance with the laws of the respective states...
...passed the first four* reservations without notable demur. On the fifth reservation, however, the conferees became deadlocked, as had been anticipated from the day this reservation was drafted. The fifth reservation is notoriously the "joker" inserted by the Senate to give the U. S. absolute power to prohibit the World Court from handing down "an advisory opinion touching any dispute or question in which the U. S. has or claims an interest."† The resentment of the World Court Adherent Powers at this blanket reservation was pungently expressed last week by the Canadian representative Sir George Eulas Foster, onetime...