Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grave abuses. It is judge-made law, to be used when there is clearly no redress through the normal process. In labor disputes, injunctions have become the best weapon of the employer, and their use has become more and more arbitrary. In the extension of the injunction to prohibition enforcement, however, the shoe is on the other foot, and the employer is hit hardest. Consequently, owners as well as workers may work together to overthrow the injunction, or at least to limit its use to equity and to prohibit it in cases which properly come under jury...
...society is so constant that the somewhat nebulous "average man" soon grows deaf to it. But occasionally there occurs an event which not only justifies complaint, but which makes the present outcry appear to be the mildest of protests. Such is the history of the New Hampshire bill to prohibit the sale of cosmetics...
...forced a roll call on which the vote was 64 to 18 against the repeal. (Went to the President.) ¶ Passed without a record vote, after two days' debate, a Rivers and Harbors Bill carrying $40,000,000 for improvements after the Gooding amendment to prohibit railways from charging lower rates for long than for short hauls and the Fernald amendment providing for the purchase of the Cape Cod Canal had been defeated. (Went to conference.) ¶ The proposal that the U. S. join the World Court came up and was tucked away again with hardly 100 words spoken...
...Indiana House of Representatives passed, 67 to 22, a bill to prohibit the wearing of a "distinctive religious garb" by public school teachers. It is aimed at driving nuns out of public schools. It had been previously defeated in the Senate...
...Tennessee House of Representatives, after an acute discussion, tabled and refused to act on a bill to prohibit the employment of public school teachers who "do not believe in God and the Deity of His Son, Jesus Christ...