Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...committee rooms. In 1924, less from conviction of right than from a desire to wash its hands of a troublesome question, it submitted child labor to the States in the form of a Constitutional Amendment. If ratified by 36 States, the Amendment would empower Congress to "limit, regulate and prohibit" the employment of persons under...
...substitute for the Administration's oil control plan, which a rebellious Congress had rejected, the committee voted to adopt the Connally "hot oil" amendment empowering the President to prohibit interstate transportation of oil or oil products produced in violation of any state...
...refer to your article of May 1, entitled "No More Nicking," in which you state that "Last week New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman signed a bill which made his State the first to prohibit the nicking of horse's tails...
...hours. Nonetheless it was a shock to many a businessman to learn last week that Gerard Swope, president of General Electric, appearing before a committee of Congress favored if not a 30-hour week at least the next thing to it. A bill before Congress (TIME, Jan. 23) would prohibit the shipment in interstate commerce of goods manufactured in any plant where workers labored more than five six-hour days a week. Furthermore it would give the Government power to fix minimum wage rates so that manufacturers could not simply cut weekly pay along with hours...