Word: curtailer
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...utmost each of its rights under international law. This plan, however, as the experiences of 1914-1917 demonstrated, leads almost inevitably to involvement, since in modern warfare economic factors are of such vital importance, the blockade is so deadly a weapon, that self-preservation forces belligerents to curtail neutral trading privileges. The other course, less glorious but more realistic, is to withdraw the protection of the government from those who engage in commerce with warring nations. The Nye-Clark resolutions would be a step towards the adoption of this attitude...
Washington, Feb. 5--Revolting Democrats on the Senate Appropriations Committee in a stormy session today slashed out whole sections of the Administration's $4,880,000,000 works bill in a successful battle to curtail President Roosevelt's power...
...Several years ago the University relieved itself of the financial responsibility of the physical education program by asking the athletic committee to pay for it from gate receipts. When gate receipts dwindle, non-revenue producing activities must be curtailed, but I sincerely hope we shall not be asked to discontinue or curtail our Freshman exercise program...
...comes the disappointing order from the H.A.A. to cancel all plans for inter-House hockey. No reason was given other than financial and that one is felt to be an unconvincing excuse. For the past few years the H.A.A. has had to cut down on its athletic equipment and curtail its policy of "athletics for all." It has received the full support of a student body which realizes the vicissitudes of all athletic establishments. But when the H.A.A, refuses to spend a few hundred dollars to furnish facilities for winter sports for more than two hundred men, the limits...
...very definite molecular arrangement" which cured cancer. He refused to describe the stuff. Doctors branded him a quack. People whom he claimed to have cured, doctors argued, either never had cancer or, as occasionally happens, recovered spontaneously. Dr. Koch argued that his critics were hostile because his chemical would curtail their profitable cancer business. He proceeded to establish a reputation among laymen, one of whom was Mr. Anderson, onetime railroader. Wartime civilian recruiter for the Army, onetime propagandizer for the Veterans' Bureau, onetime anti-Prohibition crusader...