Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When asked if the University would prohibit students from bringing cars to school, Pyne answered it would be "reluctant...
...committee, loaded with nations hostile to unrestricted news-gathering, drafted a treaty calling for numerous limits on newspapers. The committee members from Asia and the Middle East even wanted to prohibit any story which might "injure the feelings of the nationals of a state...
...Crisis." That did it. Last week Congress was in an uproar. An indignant Robert Taft saw the country at a "constitutional crisis." Claims made for "unlimited power to commit troops," said Taft, were "based on the most superficial arguments." Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry introduced a resolution which would prohibit the President from sending any troops to Europe, except for the purpose of repelling an outright attack or as part of the present garrison in Germany...
...University has for several years officially disfavored the ownership of automobiles by students. Cambridge ordinances at present prohibit overnight parking on all streets...
Other churchmen, led by Canon Henry Graham, commended this "sensible custom." The result was a typical British compromise: a vote to delete all reference to ash-scattering from the new church law. This would neither prohibit the custom nor give it full and absolute sanction...