Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...free-born English women, forgetful of their free conditions, and to the disgrace of our nation do intermarry with Negro slaves," and to deter these "shameful matches" the law provided that women who so marry, and their off-spring, should themselves become slaves. Massachusetts became the third colony to prohibit marriage between Negroes and Caucasians...
...former Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg did not take part), the Supreme Court last week held that jurisdiction over right-to-work issues lies with the state courts. "It would be odd," wrote Justice William O. Douglas, "to construe [the 1947 Taft-Hartley Law] as permitting a state to prohibit the agency clause but barring it from implementing...
Westerners who want to trade with the Soviet bloc often find it difficult to get sufficient insurance against credit defaults or loss or damage to their goods after they cross the Iron Curtain. Western governments generally discourage or prohibit giving Communist customers anything but the most limited credit. And Western insurance firms, for the most part, consider such business neither safe nor profitable. One of the few U.S. firms to try it-a 15-company consortium-went out of business more than six months...
...ruling had prompted one leader of the National Right to Work Committee to predict a speed-up in the movement for the laws, which prohibit a company from requiring union membership of employees. Two University professors commented, however, that the decision had been fully expected and, in the words of one, "should not be regarded as a bombshell...
...Senate is expected to go along. Crowed Virginia's Republican Congressman Joel T. Broyhill, one of the backers of the bill: "A progressive step." If Congress continues to catch up with the times, it may some day dispense with the District of Columbia's laws that still prohibit driving sheep down Pennsylvania Avenue and forbid winning more than $26.67 in a gambling game...