Word: hampering
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Immediately after the Reichstag trial, Nazi papers snorted that Chief Justice Wilhelm Bünger and his associates were "too legalistic, lacking the common touch." To be sure that nothing like this should hamper the People's Court, it was announced that of its five members, only two had to be lawyers. The other three were to be chosen by the Chancellor from among those "who have had special experience in fighting off attacks against the State...
Death (or hard labor up to ten years) for all attempting to hamper the army or the police in doing their duty, or to influence them to this end through writings, pictures, radio messages or phonograph records...
...restore deGive's tongue to its former glory, but it is expected that he will still be able to pep up the team with chatter in the games. The only difficulty is in swallowing, and he has been put on an egg-nogg diet. Fears that the injury would hamper his speech were unfounded...
...Author's numerous critics have never accused him of shilly-shallying or of refraining from speaking his mind. Even such a scholarly work as this cannot hamper his characteristic style: "During the whole of his life Louis XIV was the curse and pest of Europe. No worse enemy of human freedom has ever appeared in the trappings of polite civilization." By his own enemies called a jingo, a hidebound Tory, moonfaced Winston Churchill has always pined for action. For a politician he has seen plenty though he has never headed his party in power or out. As commander...
...Margaret Higgins Sanger Slee called an "American Conference on Birth Control & National Recovery," to meet in Washington Jan. 15-17. Main argument: "With 3,500,000 American families dependent on relief for their bare subsistence, there has arisen an acute need for speed in removing the legal restrictions which hamper the poor families in their natural desire to curtail increase which only aggravates suffering and piles up still more enormous problems of public and private charity." Mrs. Sanger reports a "vast amount of bootlegging has sprung up" in contraceptive supplies. Contraceptive clinicians will be instructed at the Washington conference...