Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Said he: "It would be absolute suicide." The next day Hoffa was accused of conspiring with Commercial Carriers Inc., a Michigan trucking firm, to violate provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act that prohibit payoffs from employer to employee...
University rules, however, prohibit the appearance of individuals or organizations who defy national or state regulations concerning political parties, the committee explained. It maintained that Communist party members, who refuse to register as the Internal Security (McCarran) Act demands, violate federal...
...Three mornings a week, students had to sign in with prefects outside hall chapels, a way of encouraging attendance. This year Hesburgh dropped both restrictions (chapel attendance has not slipped). Hesburgh also cut eleven pages of student rules to two quick pages that, among other restrictions, prohibit students from having cars, from cheating or from "overdrinking." If it took Hesburgh nine years to make those changes, his hesitation is understandable. On the record, the old tight rein produced remarkably stable men. Not long ago, a visiting Harvard psychiatrist was astounded to find not a single undergraduate suicide in Notre Dame...
...Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana introduced a bill that would prohibit the "arbitrary" use of the literacy tests required for voting privileges. Under the bill, Puerto Ricans would no longer be required to know English in order to vote-provided they had at least a sixth-grade education in Spanish-and Southern states would not be able to prevent Negroes from voting by asking them to "interpret" the Constitution. Administration strategists gave the bill a "reasonably good" chance of passage...
Last week, however, the small recovery melted like a snowball on Copacabana beach. The tax-reform bill bogged down. But another bill, full of demagogic appeal, raced through the House. It would forbid foreign firms to sell stocks and bonds in Brazil. It would prohibit foreigners from taking over enterprises "being exploited" by Brazilian capital...