Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Citing a recent decision by a meeting of House Masters to prohibit paying more than $800 for a dance band at any Harvard dance and the Student Council's steadfast refusal to increase the orchestra budget, Chairman Andrew Welch regarded an increase unlikely. "If we had the guarantee of as many Freshmen as necessary to meet the additional expense, it might be possible," Welch suggested. The Committee has already approached the Council and Dean Leighton with the problem, but with no success...
After considering the effects of conscription upon the students, the Conference approved a plan to prohibit the drafting of undergraduates until the end of the academic year. Jack McMichael, chairman of the American Youth Congress, called for "more scholarships, not more battleships" and asked that students organize, as in England, to defer their conscription into the Army until after graduation...
...whether Mrs. Abbott No. 2 could prove her race. In Chicago a cousin of childless Publisher Abbott filed petition to oust Mrs. Abbott from the Abbott estate and control of the waning Defender. Grounds: that she is white, hence was illegally married six years ago in Indiana (whose laws prohibit miscegenation...
Included were the suggestions that the senators direct their energies towards securing amendments to the Lend-Lease Bill which would prohibit the employment of the American army or navy outside this hemisphere or the territories of the United States...
Said the report: "Under an authoritarian regime disturbances may be minimized, though never entirely prevented, by the constant threat of imprisonment or death." But the experiences of democracies "discredit the naive and widely-held view that the remedy for strikes is simply to prohibit them. In a democratic country the main responsibility for strike prevention must rest with the parties to industry...