Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...common or unwritten law−is by implication a legal exception, quite valid if the faith and intent behind the contract are good. Common-law marriages are recognized by the courts of most of the older States east of the Mississippi. Some of the newer States by statute expressly prohibit such unions. No nonstatutory marriage can be positively stamped as valid until its special circumstances have been reviewed by a competent court...
...Debated and rejected (47 to 27) a bill to prohibit speculation in cotton and grain futures...
More specific was Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa, who was born in a log cabin remote from the money-changers. Why, argued Senator Brookhart, quibble about such a detail as prohibiting merely Federal Reserve Banks from making speculative loans to Federal Reserve Bank members? Let us prohibit any loan by any bank to any borrower who might put the loan to speculative purposes. Radical also was the remedy offered by Utah's Senator William H. King, who has ascertained that 85% of speculation is made on margins, and who believes therefore that marginal trading should be abolished. Senator...
Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin of Alabama, who mortally hates and fears the Roman" Pope, "obtained his annual quota of publicity and ridicule by pretending again that the flag flown on Navy ships during religious services is a Popish flag, and offering an amendment to prohibit any flag flying above the U. S. flag at any time. The vote against this Heffling...
Having scattered these pearls of English vernacular before their Lordships, Baron Gorell announced that he is drafting a bill "to prohibit mock or bogus auctions" As an afterthought he added that "deuce phunt" means...