Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...innocent in February 1934. Meanwhile, Harrison Parker was doing everything in his power to make the Tribune sick at the thought of him. Discovering that since 1873 the paper had paid no State capital stock tax (few Illinois corporations bother to). Harrison Parker filed suit as a citizen to compel the Tribune...
Judge Mack found that, contrary to Bond & Share's argument, the provisions of the act which compel utility holding companies to register and file information with SEC could themselves "be given legal effect as a separate, workable act," that they were thus separable from the other provisions and had been so intended by Congress. On the question of their constitutionality he ruled that, as Congress has the power to regulate electricity and gas rates in interstate commerce, it can require, as an aid to that regulation, full information from the companies involved. Dismissing Bond & Share's cross bill...
There were other types of punishment besides fines, however, such as threats, blows, and boxing. In these, however, ye College Yarde Constable had no share, for "none belonging to the College, except the President, Professors, or Tutors, shall by threats or blows compel a Freshman or any Undergraduate to any Duty or Obedience...
Promoter Rankin, according to Prosecutor Ferguson, also made a deal with Inspector William Byrne of the California State Board of Medical Examiners, who police the practice of medicine in that State. His job for Mr. Rankin, declared the prosecutor last week, was to compel California abortionists who did a good business to subjugate themselves to Rankin dominance or get out of business...
...chiropractors. One out of five of the world's chiropractors presumably practices in California. This summer San Francisco's M. (for Michael) Jas. (for James) McGranaghan (for McGranahan) was therefore gambling the future of a large section of his profession when he went to court to compel a decision on what a California chiropractor might and might not do to another Californian's body...