Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then back to Berne to make loud protests. Swiss Vice President & Foreign Minister Giuseppe Motta had already sent an official letter of regret to Berlin, and the Swiss seemed cool to impassioned demands by Reichsführer Hitler's own newsorgan for the death sentence for the assassin. Maximum Swiss sentence for political murders is 15 years in jail. The canton of Grisons, where the crime was committed, long ago abolished the death penalty...
...past twelve years football practice has begun on September 15 according to the agreement made with Yale and Princeton, and so, before any change can be made in the program, these two universities will have to make a similar choice. In Mr. Bingham's opinion the eight-game maximum should Be continued. He is probably right in his judgment of collegiate opinion. Interest in football, which can only be measured by the shifting yardstick og gate receipts, seems to be returning to the intensity of the pre-depression days, and any serious curtailment of the program would meet with serious...
Ever since the U. S. became rich enough to have the power to outbuild Britain on the seas, successive Naval Conferences have seen British statesmen arguing for reduction of the maximum size of capital ships. Until last week, U. S. insistence that the maximum be set high enough to permit capital ships of 35,000 tons has been countered by British proposals to make 25,000 tons tops. Last week His Majesty's Government reversed themselves. With Benito Mussolini now building two 35,000-tonners and with France planning two more, while Germany is about to lay down...
...each of the ten days of the Kokugi-kan tournament. Outside the arena, thousands more bet on the matches, followed the results on score boards. Of the money spent for tickets, the performers got a trifling share. As stupid as they are immense, sumo performers are content with a maximum pay of $100 a month augmented only by gifts of swords, bottles of sake, new aprons from generous admirers. Four years ago, a sumo strike for better pay, shorter hours, cheaper seats, a mutual aid society, pensions, was a miserable failure...
Meantime Chairman Eccles is trying out another set of brakes, which are designed to control a specific kind of credit -stockmarket credit. Under the Securities Exchange Act the Reserve Board was given the power to regulate margin requirements. Fortnight ago, sensing the growing speculative fever, Chairman Eccles upped maximum margin requirements from 45% to 55% (TIME, Feb. 3). Some bankers believe that even if the Board shut down, as it can. on all market credit, a fancy boom could occur on a cash basis. Their point is that while credit may be shut off at one spigot it might still...