Word: binds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed British steel & iron works. In return for Canada's "favors" (such as they are) Great Britain will take an historic step, abandoning her sacrosanct principle of a "Free British Meal Table" (no tariffs or insignificant tariffs on foods). Under the Ottawa agreements the London Parliament is to bind itself for five years to maintain a myriad of tariffs on foodstuffs, from which Canadian edibles will mostly be exempt. It is this tying of Britain's hands which some of her greatest lawyers have flayed as unprecedented in British constitutional history (TIME...
...many a success writer has written of their rise from newspaper selling with pooled assets of $16.32 to a position where they control 29,704 miles of track with Cleveland's new Union Terminal as their monument. The Depression has brought a severe strain on the holding companies which bind their empire and there has been many a rumor that they have lost control. Once, when such reports were at their height, Brother Mantis was off duckshooting and Brother Oris was calmly addressing New England Governors on the way he would like to see consolidation come about (TIME...
After 13 weeks of haggling, Rumania last week signed an international oil pact with all the great oil producing nations except Russia. Terms of the pact are thought to bind Rumania to keep oil production down to 1930's level, to enforce further reductions in proportion to any drop in consumption below 1930's rate. But this news caused little cheer to oilmen in the U. S., for once again their industry faced a crisis...
...Senate. Did this mean publicity? President Hoover thought not, said he had "assurances"' from Senate leaders that R. F. C. reports would be kept confidential. But Speaker Garner, who forced the report provision into the bill, was of a contrary mind. Besides. Senate leaders had no right to bind the Democratic House. Clerk Trimble, as the House's hired man, wrestled with the question. Publicity, he knew, would incense the White House; no publicity might cost him his job. Armed with a legal opinion from his son, he decided that it was the "intent" of Congress that...
...total of 277 seats. The Socialists and other Left Wing Parties will muster 241 seats not counting the all-important group of 89 Communists. European observers saw no reason for Chancellor von Papen to resign his Government, felt that the unexpected strength of the Socialist and Communist vote would bind him to milder utterances and a more moderate foreign policy unless he and Minister of Defense von Schleicher attempt to rule by open dictatorship...