Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...return for only the smallest of gains he brought down upon his head once more the wrath of Congress. It was a blunder. More than any other man, John Lewis was responsible for the Smith-Connally Act, the boomerang labor law which Congress passed in an effort to curb...
...things had happened in the 16 months since James Caesar Petrillo last negotiated a big union contract. Congress had sent the President a bill calculated to curb his "coercive practices" in radio. Walter Reuther, John L. Lewis and other labor leaders had stolen his tricks or invented new ones. Were others taking James Caesar's place? Did the booing bother him? Last week in Manhattan, representatives of eight major motion-picture studios got the answer: Petrillo was improving all the time...
...ambiguous to strive for more children from those families of good mental and physical health, and of good principles, and at the same time seek to curb those from irresponsible families who neglect their children? Or would TIME recommend that morons, sex perverts, and the like be given a bonus to bring more children into the world? I think...
Every day since UNO's General Assembly opened Jan. 10, two or three hundred Britons have lined up on the narrow curb opposite Westminster's Central Hall. They stand there, watching and silent, as the delegates come & go, waiting for something, asking the simple questions that all men ask. Peace or war? Want or plenty? Or, more likely in Westminster these days: "What's up, guv'ner? Those blokes getting anywhere...
Sweeping Success. Reuter men who were around the musty London office in his day recall, but not fondly, that a man could be sacked for not dressing to Sir Roderick's fussy taste. The sidewalk was swept each morning, just before his Rolls-Royce pulled up at the curb. Sir Roderick baldly declared that his agency stood "for the advancement of British influence...