Word: prohibitions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beer in Colombia," explained a Government spokesman, "is considered a perfectly natural drink which it would be unwise to prohibit...
Good news for the U. S. oil industry came from Washington last week. The Supreme Court upheld Oklahoma's rigid proration law. Leaders thought that with the assurance of this decision behind them other States may act to prohibit "physical as well as economic waste...
Mayor Key first got into trouble with prohibitors when, junketing through France with other U. S. mayors last spring, he publicly opined that Prohibition did not prohibit, was in fact an "abysmal failure." The Greater Atlanta Prohibition & Law Enforcement League began to circulate a petition for a special election to oust him. Though the League could not get one-third of the signatures required for a recall vote, Mayor Key had to withdraw from his men's Bible class at Grace Methodist Church. Thereupon he began a non-denominatiorial Bible class in a theatre where he was free...
...Passed (75-10-5) a bill making illegal labor contracts which prohibit an employe from joining a union and specifying that Federal courts must hold public hearings before issuing injunctions in labor disputes; sent it to the House...
...Concerning apportionment of Representatives: concerning compensation to members of Congress (1789); forfeiture of citizenship by acceptance of foreign titles or other honor (1810); Corwin Amendment to prohibit the Constitution from interfering with slavery in the States (1861); Child Labor...