Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only action taken by University Hall after the Council publicized its findings was to prohibit scholarship holders from using the tutoring schools without official consent...
Though his life seems to be all work, Stevenson nevertheless manages to get some fun out of it. When the legislature handed him a bird lovers' bill to prohibit cats from running at large, he vetoed it with the comment: "It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming ... In my opinion, the State of Illinois and its local governing bodies already have enough to do without trying to control feline delinquency...
...successful against the N.F.L., the Justice Department will go after college football, professional basketball boxing and other sports. The suit asked the United States District Court in Philadelphia to prohibit N.F.L. restrictions...
...reason the Longorias have been able to expand so fast: Mexico's laws put a tax ceiling of 333% on corporation profits and prohibit double taxation, i.e., a company's profits are taxed, but not the dividends. Says Chito, "It's a good way. You have to let the individual grow. After he has grown, O.K., tax him, but let him grow first...
...week's end, the last big holdout was heard from: India will boycott the conference. Jawaharlal Nehru told a cheering Parliament that he opposes the treaty because: 1) it does not prohibit U.S. forces in Japan; 2) does not turn over Formosa to Red China; 3) gives the U.S. trusteeship over the Ryukyu and Bonin Islands, including Okinawa; 4) does not confirm Russia's Yalta title to the Kuriles and South Sakhalin; 5) does not give Japan "honor, equality and contentment...