Word: curtailing
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...methods cannot be doubted. This is particularly true in the South, and Georgia in particular has had a high total of lynchings to her discredit. Federal investigators of conditions have prophesied that increased construction of state highways here, bringing rural communities into closer touch with the judicial machinery, will curtail mob action. Anything destructive of the sentiment which motivates such action must be welcome. Representative Crisp's move, a step in the wrong direction, may be pleasing to his constituents. If he does not share their feeling he is a demagogue; if he does, little can be said...
More fortunate were the producers of copper, far less numerous, of course, than sugar and rubbermen. After almost breaking up, a world conference in New York agreed to curtail production from 26½% of capacity...
...country at large through the first microphones ever installed in the Washington home. ¶Following a ruling by the governing board of the New York Stock Exchange that, after April 1, member firms must not lend securities without written consent of the owners, an action to curtail short selling, President Hoover declared...
Rumors that Yale, unable to balance her current budget, would reduce faculty salaries and drastically curtail personnel have been denied by President Angell. This is good news not only to the Yale faculty, but to the faculties of many other universities, which escaping salary losses thus far, have feared the effect upon their own fortunes of a reduction policy initiated by some of the larger and wealthier institutions...
Depression hit another Pacific Coast orchestra early in the autumn. The Seattle Symphony had to curtail its season by half, as a result received the resignation of Conductor Karl Krueger. William Clark, book-collecting son of the late Senator Clark of Montana, stands by the Los Angeles Philharmonic even in time of trouble, but his job is lessened by the great popularity of Conductor Artur Rodzinsky. The Portland (Ore.) Symphony under Conductor Willem van Hoogstratten ran an aggressive campaign this season, reduced its salaries...