Word: forbid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unfair trade practices, 24 of these were speedily agreed on and outlawed, the list ranging from defamation of competitors to tampering with speedometers. Only major point the dealers refused to concede was the price-fixing of trade-in values. This FTC is eager to forbid and may still do, but the dealers maintained that this stabilization of trade-ins was all that prevented ruinous price-wars...
What the growers wanted James Morrison to do was stop the chains from using strawberries as loss-leaders to get customers into their stores. First thing he did was to forbid buyers to use the Hammond Auction for anyone but their own chain...
...start of this year's strawberry season, which lasts from March till the middle of May, James Morrison petitioned the National Chain Stores Association to forbid its members selling berries at less than 1½? profit a pint, 36? a crate. Last week Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. said it would do as Mr. Morrison's Farmers Union asked...
...issue injunctions in labor disputes. A case arose in Milwaukee, when the Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butchers Union, an A. F. of L. affiliate, appealed to E. G. Shinner & Co. to hire union workers only. The management refused, the union started picketing, and the company asked for an injunction to forbid picketing. District Judge Ferdinand Geiger decided that no labor dispute existed since no employes of the company were on strike, that therefore the Norris-LaGuardia Act did not apply, granted the injunction. The Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Judge Geiger's injunction...
...been almost as much under her husband's authority as though she were a minor child, unable to sign a check without his countersignature, helpless to make a will or contract without his express approval, unable to leave France or appear on the stage in France should he forbid...