Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...majority. Committee meetings could get underway only after majority authorization, and a requirement of four days' notice for meetings outside Washington should insure the presence of at least several members at every hearing. And since evidence would be introduced exclusively by courtroom procedure, members would be able to prohibit the assorted mail and stolen documents that clutter committee transcripts...
...last week's convention the bureau showed how deeply it feels its responsibility for a sane farm policy. Although it is solidly behind Benson, it scolded him in a resolution for removing "cross-compliance" regulations, which prohibit farmers who accept high support prices and quotas on one money crop from diverting acres made idle by their quotas to other surplus crops. The provision has been unpopular with some farmers and Farm Bloc Congressmen, but the Farm Bureau feared its loss would swell surpluses. The convention also resolved to oppose any attempt to revive high, rigid supports. As Benson himself...
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...Harper Woods, near Detroit, parents demanded an ordinance to prohibit a local drive-in from showing "objectionable" pictures. Reason: neighborhood children were watching the drive-in screen at night from their bedrooms-especially Jane Russell's often-banned French Line. The youngsters, claimed their fathers, were happy to scoot up to bed; moreover, they did not mind lack of sound from the film...
...Henceforth, they will be obliged to certify their actual construction and property costs at the project's end, and return any excess mortgage money. FHA also set out to try to recover some of the millions already pocketed. The charters of the apartment-building corporations formed under 608 prohibit unearned income (i.e., windfalls) from being handed out to shareholders, said Housing Boss Albert M. Cole. The firms that did so, declared Cole, were in default of their guarantee agreements ; therefore. FHA had the right to take control of them and sue for recovery...