Word: limited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presidential campaign in a series of unpopular decisions, President Roosevelt will presumably go to the country and say in effect: "We tried to do things to help you but the Supreme Court wouldn't let us. Therefore let us have a Constitutional Amendment which will limit the Supreme Court's power to wreck the country's welfare program...
...major markets on three continents grain traders were confounded by the most extraordinary piece of news about the Dominion pool since it was started in 1924. The moment the news was known a dark storm of selling broke over the Chicago, Minneapolis and Kansas City markets, tumbling prices the limit of 5¢ in one day. In Liverpool, Rotterdam, Buenos Aires and Winnipeg, wheat also went down in confusion. Other commodities, notably corn and rye, slid off sharply. The news: After weathering years of economic crises, farm unrest, public criticism and political skulduggery, the Canadian Wheat Pool was about to unload...
...than one degree removed from operating companies should be dissolved by the Securities & Exchange Commission within seven years. This was precisely what President Roosevelt wanted. Then Power scored twice in quick succession. For drastic Section 11 the House Interstate Commerce Committee substituted a milder regulatory measure, directing SEC to limit each holding company's operations to one integrated public-utility system. When a poll of House Democrats showed the Administration upward of 30 votes shy of a majority to sustain the Senate's action, President Roosevelt demanded a record vote on the House floor so he could...
...Eden thus referred to the fact that His Majesty's Government, tempted by Adolph Hitler's offer to limit his navy forever to 35% of theirs, not only gave Germany a blank check to violate the Treaty of Versailles (TIME, June 24) but made a further and secret agreement with the Reich. This, made by the British Admiralty, was concealed until last week from the British Foreign Office, a procedure almost unprecedented. It was forced into the open after Premier Laval asked to see Britain's copy of Germany's new Naval building plans and was readily promised them...
...royalties. When a landowner leases mineral rights, he retains the right to the royalties-generally one barrel out of every eight. Because he and his clients receive one-eighth of production irrespective of the price of oil, Mr. Jones does not look kindly upon any effort to limit the natural flow...