Word: compel
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...confession was provoked by the Cambridge City Council. Councilman Michael A. Sullivan, old foe of Harvard,* had persuaded from the Council an order to compel the University Overseers to surrender the statues as scrap metal...
...Wadsworth bill would compel all boys reaching the age of 18 to submit to one year of military training before they reach 20. The purpose of this legislation is to forestall the very strong instinct for disarmament after the war, which, if undertaken too soon or too suddenly would render the United States unable to back up its collective security with force if it is needed...
Economy-With Teeth. In the House, Missouri's knob-nosed Clarence Cannon, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, moved to give his committee sweeping powers to slice nonwar expenditures. He proposed that the committee have authority to issue subpoenas, compel witnesses to testify under oath, and to hire technical experts to sleuth through the budget. In a Congress bent on economy, his proposal seemed certain of approval...
...along with an economic situation under which the no-strike agreement would be destroyed . . . this board is operating under the war powers of the President . . . it has no course of action in the case of defiance but to meet it with whatever forces of government are necessary to compel compliance." In other words, WLB, like Sewell Avery, had gone too far to back down...
...Russians' only definition of a second front is Allied action which will compel the Germans to withdraw great numbers of troops, weapons and planes from the Russian front...