Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...therefore, I, Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Mayor of the City of New York, by virtue of the statutes and established customs in such case made and provided, do proclaim that an emergency exists which threatens the peace and good order of the City of New York, and do hereby prohibit from and after the 26th day of December, 1935, the sale, display and possession of artichokes...
...result, the College must take the initiative. Any effort to prohibit drinking, however, must be avoided for such a policy would not only destroy the liberalism which Harvard fosters but would also undermine its prestige with its students. Drinking in all its forms must be permitted...
...Minimum wages, shorter hours, elimination of child labor, "fair treatment of labor." "But industry is opposed to . . . laws that prohibit the right of a man to work or that attempt to regiment and control the activities of private enterprise...
From scientific investigation in the past it has been known that the atmosphere would be less than one quarter as dense as that of the earth. Whether this condition would prohibit life as we know it had been an open question among astronomers...
...Ohio's Representative Theodore E. Burton introduced a resolution to empower the President to prohibit at his discretion export of arms & munitions to the aggressor in any war. Then & there arose the issue which has divided U. S. neutrality-seekers ever since, setting the Senate implacably against the President and State Department. Unwilling to let the President pick sides in a war by naming the aggressor, isolationist Senators asserted that an arms embargo should apply automatically to all belligerents. Otherwise, they argued, the embargoed nation would be certain to strike back exactly as Germany had struck. Firmly the State...