Word: limited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Roosevelt ordered the current Ewald investigation only after much hesitation. He then instructed the Republican Attorney General to limit his special grand jury to the case in hand. Fortnight ago the jury, ignoring this restriction, sought to delve into rumors of a large-scale job-buying system in Tammany Hall. To be able to make more indictments, the jury wanted all witnesses to waive their Constitutional immunity from having their testimony used against them. Subpenaed and presented with immunity waivers to sign were John Francis ("Boss") Curry, chief of Tammany Hall, and the leaders of his 23 districts. Boss...
...illegal, for the Kellogg-Briand Treaty or Pact of Paris. And to him went the $50,000 Bok Peace Prize for his plan of adjusting War reparations and debts. The Manchester Guardian has proposed him for the Nobel Peace Prize. Last week Peace-Maker Levinson made another peace proposal: limit short-selling...
...Haven, Conn., October 10--The move to limit attendance at Yale football games gained momentum today when the Yale Alumni Weekly printed a letter from Farwell Knapp, assistant state tax collector, which stated that the crowds at the games should be "limited to undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty members, with perhaps an allowance of one or two guests apiece...
Moscow meanwhile was in significant frenzy about an internal food crisis, useful measure of the limit beyond which Red statesmen cannot go in external dumping. The Soviet press (a Government monopoly) told citizens throughout Russia of a British plot to "starve" them. Naming names, Izvestia declared the chief villain to be Andrew Fothergill Esq., a director of the British Union Cold Storage Co.'s plant at Riga, Latvia. He was said to have bribed the Chairman of the Soviet Meat Trust, Professor Alexander Riazanzev, to "disorganize the Soviet food distribution system and promote wholesale famine in Russia." Some Soviet...
...Edwin Charles Ernst, 45, of St. Louis, president of the new Radiological Research Institute, took the occasion to flay U. S. manufacturers of X-ray tubes. Bold was his charge: "The larger companies of unlimited financial resources apparently limit their researches and developments of improved apparatus or X-ray tubes to those improvements that promise large profits. One such organization in this country controls the patent rights to manufacture X-ray tubes exclusively** and as a result charges prohibitory prices [$125~$450] for the necessary tubes of the physicians who must purchase them for X-ray diagnosis and the treatment...