Word: prohibitions
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...caught up in the argument. The House, before it even got to a vote on U.M.T., made it illogically plain that it was inclined to drop the whole thing. Congressman Carl Vinson of Georgia, in charge of pushing U.M.T. through, hastily promised to support an amendment which would prohibit bright-boy deferments. But at week's end it seemed likely that his amendment had come too late to save U.M.T...
...Kefauver's major target is the racing wire. He is considering legislation to prohibit the interstate transmission of racing information other than results and the interstate transmission of bets by wire. He wants to give the Internal Revenue agents special power (or the gumption) to deal with Big Crimesters' calculatedly vague accounting...
When asked if the University would prohibit students from bringing cars to school, Pyne answered it would be "reluctant...
...committee, loaded with nations hostile to unrestricted news-gathering, drafted a treaty calling for numerous limits on newspapers. The committee members from Asia and the Middle East even wanted to prohibit any story which might "injure the feelings of the nationals of a state...
...Crisis." That did it. Last week Congress was in an uproar. An indignant Robert Taft saw the country at a "constitutional crisis." Claims made for "unlimited power to commit troops," said Taft, were "based on the most superficial arguments." Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry introduced a resolution which would prohibit the President from sending any troops to Europe, except for the purpose of repelling an outright attack or as part of the present garrison in Germany...