Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...felt that, since girls wear short shorts for tennis and gym, it is inconsistent to prohibit them on the dormitory quad. "It is silly to ask girls to wear coats over their shorts when they are going to and from the tennis courts," Lauren R. Brown '57 commented...
Another clause in this same bill would prohibit employees from paying dues or giving other support to a union deemed under Communist domination, and would deny any member of such a group employment in a defense plant. Although it is, of course, vital that saboteurs be kept out of industry, a blanket measure of this kind raises more problems than it answers. It would be up to the Subversives Activities Control Board to decide if a union is Communist dominated, and in times of fear, this Board could be pressured into unwise decisions. Also, it would be an easy matter...
...probably has hit some weak unions. Under Taft-Hartley, workers striking for economic reasons -may not vote in plant elections. Hence, an employer can hire non-union workers, hold an election and exclude the striking workers. Dwight Eisenhower views this as a "union busting" license, and wants to prohibit such votes until the strike is at least four months old. Even so, there is little solid evidence of Taft-Hartley's overall effects, good...
...case has anyone ever been convicted under the section, and that was not a wiretap case.* Since the FBI does a lot of tapping, the Justice Department has not even tried to enforce Section 605 against wiretappers. Courts have had little occasion to decide whom Section 605 prohibits from doing what. Many lawyers accept the Justice Department's view that the law does not prohibit the bare act of wiretapping, provided the information so gained is not "divulged or published...
University laws, like state and national laws, are not made to be broken. But when they prohibit a man from a share of greatness, discontent will naturally arise. Because the No Smoking rule in Memorial Hall technically makes it impossible for the freshmen to hold their Smoker there, an entire Harvard class may rise in righteous protest, its desire to be great for a night brutally dashed...