Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Filipinos approved the amendment in a plebiscite. Mr. Roosevelt's signature is all that is necessary to make it law - and wily Quezon scarcely anticipates a veto from President Roosevelt. Quezon has also asked and obtained from the Assembly "emergency" powers which give him authority to suppress espionage, prohibit strikes or lockouts, mobilize citizens for whatever productive pusuits he deems necessary. On the subject of the State he has proclaimed: "Organized society is predicated upon the willingness of men to limit their freedom in the interest of the well-being of the entire community." On the subject of Democracy...
Moslems never drink, because the Prophet told them not to. Hindus seldom do, because they consider it impolite to women and old men. One of the foremost aims of the Indian National Congress has been to introduce prohibition throughout India-as a demonstration that Indians can rule themselves as well as control themselves. British officials have opposed prohibition because liquor excise taxes have recently contributed 25% of provincial revenues. Besides, they say, why prohibit something which is already taboo? But last August the Congress Cabinet of the Bombay Presidency (pop. 26,400) prevailed, and put prohibition into effect...
Mickey "the Dude" Sullivan, flery crusader against the Kremlin, hit the headlines all over the country when he had a resolution passed by the Cambridge City Council which would prohibit the presence of any book within Cambridge which had the words "Lenin or Leningrad...