Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only amendment which might inhibit the powers that the President had asked was No. 3. But Congress' refusal to "authorize" convoying did not prohibit the President from exercising an authority he already had under the Constitution. As Commander in Chief of the Army & Navy, he can send armed forces wherever he sees fit. That U. S. naval vessels might, in the end, have to convoy foreign merchant ships, in order to make sure that aid to Britain got to Britain, was a possibility over which opponents of the bill brooded...
...first reading of the opinion, some attorneys thought in obviated necessity for further action on the proposed child labor amendment to the consti- tution but Gerard D. Reilly, Labor Department Solicitor, said that ratification still is necessary to prohibit child labor in intra-state commerce. He said the decision merely "upheld again the right of Congress to regulate child labor in interstate commerce...
Antique federal immigration laws, intended to outlaw importation of contract labor and which today prohibit organizations from paying transportation costs of emigres, should be changed. The old quotas must be revised or abandoned. Uncle Sam's refusal to classify the Spanish Loyalists as refugees so that they are ineligible for even temporary haven is a heartless response to the appeal of those first fighters against fascism who now are ringed by Franco, Hitler, and Mussolini. No All American team sparked by Senator Reynolds should be permitted to pull in the welcome must of Ellis Island. Not even the selfish arguments...
...audience cheered the blasts which were made against Willkie's inconsistencies and misstatements. In particular he dwelt on the Republican candidate's remarks before a cattle raising audience that he would prohibit importation's of Argentine canned beef for the navy...
...these herbs was wormwood, an excellent stomachic, which by the time of World War I had also acquired a reputation as an aphrodisiac, thereby helping to enrich the firm of Pernod Fils, leading manufacturer of absinthe. In 1914 the publisher of a small Paris newspaper started a campaign to prohibit absinthe, based on the popular beliefs that: 1) wormwood is an aphrodisiac; 2) continued use of aphrodisiacs produces impotence; 3) France is a nation of absinthe sippers; 4) therefore France as a nation is becoming impotent. Frenchmen's mortal fear of impotence, coupled with war hysteria and a falling...