Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deal with, both threats to freedom. During his visit to the U.S., he pledged: "We are firmly resolved not to repeat the mistakes of the Weimar Republic, which, by its exaggerated liberalism, permitted the enemies of the country to destroy its democratic institutions. We have . . . laws to prohibit and dissolve such organizations . . . and we will apply them against radical elements of both the right and the left. There will not be another...
...Niort (pop. 29,068) in southwestern France, Caroline Chérie ran into the Abbé Francis Ferrier. Rallying parents' associations, parochial-school pupils, and politicians, the abbe demanded that Mayor Felix Lelant prevent the film from being shown. The mayor thought hard, decided that he might prohibit the film on the grounds that it was a "provocation to riot," and got the municipal council so to rule. That night pro-Carolinians chalked the walls of Niort with the slogan: "Liberate Caroline." The anti-Carolinians retaliated with: "Caroline go Home...
...Received from its Judiciary Committee a bill to prohibit the display of the United Nations flag in a position equal to or above the U.S. flag, except at the U.N. building in Manhattan...
...fear of the loss of liberty is what bothers me. He laments the passing of freedom of expression, yet in his very lamentation he betrays the fallacy of his fears. Who has prevented him from writing those . . . lines [to the American Society of Newspaper Editors] ? Who will prohibit his denouncing the Republicans, Wall Street and organized religion? Here is an educator who would have us establish a special, privileged class of citizenry which would inherit complete immunity solely by reason of a profession in education. Is this democracy ? Or is it the very reactionary society which these "liberal" minds attack...
Schulman denied that the firing has anything to do with the recent "piety" controversy. He noted, however, that the same people who voted to prohibit religious ceremonies in Association meetings are now supporting Wiegand. "They are using him as a 'scape-goat' to hinder my administration," he said. He said his opponents had a "sour grapes" attitude toward his election. Schulman, a "dark horse" candidate, won the presidency of the association by one vote...