Word: crackdown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last few weeks the air has fairly crackled with important, and usually coded, admiralty radio messages-Germany calling all ships home but its submarines; Britain ordering a Mediterranean blockade; U. S. Navy telling its personnel the score. These and others appeared in the U. S. press, incurred no Federal crackdown. But one of them was also broadcast by at least one radio station, Manhattan's WMCA, and last week there was an official fuss, with apparently more bark than bite...
...Hardest hit by Mr. Hull's crackdown were tourist agencies. With no tours to book, no increase in travel to non-warring countries, Thos. Cook & Son laid off 125 employes, tightened its belt, like many a competitor, prepared for a starvation diet...
...also true that the Czech Government had shown signs of disobedience to the Nazis. A crackdown, figured the Führer, would do much to admonish Poland and Hungary which have-in the former by rioting, in the latter by upsetting a cabinet-recently shown themselves unsympathetic to Nazidom...
...complaints received since Wages & Hours went into effect last October 24, Elmer Andrews' staff last week had sifted 2,800 which deserved further investigation and possibly prosecution. But U. S. business need expect no crackdown performance akin to General Hugh Johnson's NRA siege. Gentle Elmer Andrews hardly knows how to bellow and doubts that he will ever need to know...
...Cracked down on 18 leading U. S. tire companies. Charging price collusion in submitting identical bids for Government contracts, Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold sued the 18 for $1,053,474.63. Like the Government's crackdown on cement and threatened crackdown on steel pricing policies, the action was symptomatic of the New Deal's current conviction that rigid industrial prices are the basis both of monopoly and of continued hard times...