Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mills' specific suggestions to alleviate the thrust towards World War III, while eminently worthwhile, are less dramatic than his original thesis. He thinks that the United States should withdraw from all overseas bases, cease production and testing of nuclear weapons, encourage European disarmament, relax restrictions on scientific work, prohibit arms shipments to the Middle East, establish greater cultural exchange with Russia, provide a trained civil service, and reestablish civilian control over the military. However, the more important of Mills' recommendations are made less meaningful by his inclusion of seemingly trivial suggestions such as the foundation of a fleet of airlines...
...student opinion. The second instance of restraint involves the broader issue of casting a blanket of silence around controversial speakers, by not allowing them to appear on college campuses. Such was the action taken by the Administrative Council of the Board of Higher Education of New York to prohibit persons convicted under the Smith Act from speaking at the city colleges...
...prelude to a Communist-inspired campaign to prohibit nuclear weapons altogether because "the Soviet Union has systematically sought to paralyze the West's will" to use those weapons. "In the present state of Western defenses, such a prohibition is tantamount to unilateral disarmament...
...have no force-out tax provision. Against Schenley stood Joseph E. Seagram & Sons. Seagram argued that Schenley held 60% to 70% of all the old whisky in the U.S., hence would reap the major benefit. Seagram backed a different proposal of the Distilled Spirits Institute: grant tax relief, but prohibit distillers from labeling their whiskies as over eight years old until all companies have built up big inventories of cobwebbed stocks...
...approach of final examinations and several unfortunate recent episodes lead me to warn students that they are individually responsible for a knowledge of Faculty regulations," Leighton stated. College rules prohibit possession of explosives or the playing of "boisterous music" after...