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Within the hour prior to his sudden death in a committee room in Ohio's State House last month, President William Forbes Morgan of Distilled Spirits Institute read aloud a lucid eight-page statement urging rejection of a so-called "antidiscriminatory" bill which sought to prohibit liquor imports into Ohio from States whose liquor laws discriminated against Ohio. Performing his most important task since leaving his job as Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee to become front man for U. S. liquor interests (TIME, March 1), Mr. Morgan contended that the legislation: 1) proposed retaliatory measures against honest regulatory...
...present Union restriction on the exportation of fruit is petty, trivial and slightly annoying, and in view of the fact that the House Dining Halls do not prohibit its consumption off the premises, the Union will put itself in a ridiculous position, if it continues its present policy...
...infants, such applications are not free from danger, for experience has shown that the oil may be drawn into the lung and give rise to a fatal pneumonia. For this reason most pediatric services now prohibit the use of oily substances in the noses of infants under two years of age.''-Dr. John Levi Rice, New York City Health Commissioner, in a warning to his community last week...
...read a few lines from the Act itself: 'Nothing in this Act shall be construed so as to impede or diminish in .any way the right to strike.' So I think we may start with the idea that the Labor Board Act is not one to prohibit strikes...
...most exciting scenes of all, however, are the result of a disappointment and a last minute change of plans. After full permission had been granted, the Soviet government decided nevertheless to prohibit the expedition's passing through Russia, and so it became necessary to cross the Himalayas. The trucks crept painfully over the narrow icy passes, and the photographers produced their masterpieces. The edge of the road would crumble into the valley below, and for agonizing seconds a truck would lurch and then hold. Sometimes the risk was too great, and there was no way through except by means...