Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general strike, SCAP (Supreme Command, Allied Powers) probably saved the conservative Yoshida Government (the strike's real target), but it also pushed labor toward the left-and persuaded many unionists that MacArthur had developed a filicidal anti-union bent. Since then, Premier Shigeru Yoshida's failure to curb inflation has increased tension, and has confronted SCAP with a set of unattractive alternatives: 1) to abandon all strike control and risk governmental and production collapse; 2) to take over immediately full economic direction of Japan, thus puppetizing the government; or 3) to invoke drastic measures to prevent all strikes...
...after the decision, Lewis clumped before the Senate labor committee to testify on labor legislation which would curb such labor leaders as Lewis. His appearance was notable for one statement. There was just no way to "guarantee" production of coal in a democracy, Lewis said. "Congress would have to give the executive such a tremendous grant of authority and build up such a power that the Republic would no longer exist...
Mood of Nonviolence. In Washington, Senator Robert Taft's Labor Committee went on about its work. Congressmen were not in a violent mood. But they were prepared to curb labor as it had not been curbed in years. On the Committee's table were bills to set up a federal mediation board which would replace Labor Secretary Schwellenbach's conciliation service; bills to outlaw the closed shop, to end industrywide bargaining, to amend the Wagner...
...blonde screamed: "Let me out . . . let me out!" "You shut your trap," said Percy Boon. The car sped over London's lonely, foggy Wimbledon Common, and Police Constable Lamb, leaping over the curb to safety, glimpsed the struggling couple in the front seat. A few hours later, detectives in raincoats were standing over the blonde's dead body-while Percy, hatless, bloody, hysterical, ran desperately for shelter in the myriad streets of London...
Last August, to curb blatant cigaret trading, Lieut. General Lucius D. Clay, then Deputy Military Governor, opened a legal barter center in Berlin's swank Dahlem district. Through one door, Americans swarmed with their cartons. Through another, Berliners brought their bric-a-brac, silver, china, cameras, radios, furs; the cigarets the Germans got in exchange bought food and clothing on Berlin's black market...