Word: prohibitional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rivers and Harbors. The House passed a bill for improvement of rivers and harbors but it contains a number of controversial features, purchase of the Cape Cod Canal, deepening of the Illinois and of the Missouri Rivers, which will delay if not prohibit its passage by the Senate at this session...
Passed without discussion or a record vote a bill to prohibit any extraordinary appeals in the trials of Albert B. Fall, Harry Sinclair, E. L. Doheny for conspiracy to defraud the Government. (Bill went to the House...
Mountain climbers were downcast last week. From Calcutta came a wireless saying that Brigadier General C. G. Bruce, commander of the 1924 attempt and failure to reach the highest spot on earth, Mt. Everest's peak,? had learned that the Tibetan authorities** had "definitely decided to prohibit any further expeditions...
Defeated in his attempt to prohibit all forms of "long and short haul," Senator Gooding promptly introduced another bill to prevent "the evil" in some particular cases. His new bill is designed to prohibit railroads from making special rates .to compete with waterways other than the Panama Canal. This will be opposed as bitterly as ever by-the Great Lakes representatives, but since it does not greatly affect rates between the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, Senator Gooding hopes to get some support from seaboard Senators. But it is unlikely that this bill will agitate the present session...
...Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic has been sleeping over ten years. You can't expect much from somnambulists. With one notable exception, LaGuardia, these committeemen are so dry they will not allow anyone to 'drink in' the morning air, and even prohibit a golf bag to have a 'stick...