Word: prohibitions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During World War II, thanks to cash from high food prices, industrious Hutterites extended their farm holdings in southern Alberta. Protests at their "land grabbing" persuaded the provincial legislature to prohibit their buying any more. The wartime ban ends next May 1 and the 33 Hutterite colonies are already planning to expand...
...whole body of the Wages & Hours Act. Last week, the Senate started hearings on bills to slam the door against portal pay suits. The one which really raised the hair of unionists was the bill of Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart. It sounded reasonable. The bill would prohibit suits against any employer who had "acted in good faith" to obey the Wages & Hours Act. But under this bill, which many Congressmen favored, unionists knew that it would be almost impossible to sue an employer, even for substandard wages, which had nothing to do with portal pay. The none...
...Bank has not yet been able to decide what securities it will float to finance its loans. (Bankers gossiped that this delay, arising from internal conflict over policies, was the real reason for Meyer's resignation.) The chief difficulty is that most states prohibit savings banks, insurance companies and state commercial banks from investing in them. And so far the Bank has been able to devote little time to getting the laws changed. The job won't be easy...
Final action was taken on a proposal to change the chapter's constitution to prohibit new business not on the agenda from being brought up from the floor. The motion for amendment was narrowly defeated...
Another key tenet of the Liberal's code is his adherence to the spirit of the Constitutional amendments which prohibit discrimination because of race or color. All citizens are entitled to the same rights and freedoms, to the same opportunities. And they are entitled to a governmental policy which will guarantee that the abundant resources and talent with which this nation is blessed will be used so as to bring the greatest benefits to the greatest number of Americans...