Word: compel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...antitrust
laws in the magnesium industry, officials refused to appear, contending
they were not doing business as a U.S. corporation. The Attorney
General claimed that the seizure (timed with expected receipt of
$250,000 due I. G. Farbenindustrie that same day for license fees from
U.S. firms) would compel the dye trust to appear before a U.S. court if it
wanted to protest, w
...than in the last war. Washington last week was phenomenally like the Washington of January 1918. Then, as last week, there was a central agency (the early War Industries Board in 1918; the Office of Production Management last week), without a head empowered to decide, to act, to compel obedience. Then, as last week, there was a President passionately dedicated to the purposes of production, yet unready and unwilling to delegate final power to get that production done...
...years ago frenetic, tyrannical Producer Samuel ("Include me out") Goldwyn filed suit in a Federal court to compel United Artists to release him from his distribution contract. Two of his four partners in United Artists, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks (who died a few months later) were no longer making films. Charlie Chaplin brooded on his art, once in a long while turned out a picture. Producer Goldwyn felt that his films were carrying United Artists, had tried in vain (with British Producer Alexander Korda) to acquire the rest of its stock...
Today only five States (N. Y., Wis., N. J., Ohio, Maine) compel litigants to undergo blood tests when appropriate...
...active command of the force was one of these unhorsed horsemen: peppery, profane little Major General Charles L. Scott, a onetime polo player and chief of the old cavalry's Remount Service. Adna Chaffee, having done more than any other U. S. soldier to compel respect for the tank, was ill in Boston. Pneumonia had sapped him, left him no better than a good fighter's chance to dirty his face again...