Word: restraining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impossible position of refusing to protect the sanctity of English property in this hemisphere and preventing that country from doing it herself. So no matter what he does he is sure to be doubly damned. The only possible way out it to move fast in Cuba and restrain the government down there. This is a task which would be rendered infinitely easier by the recognition of the existing government and the complete abandonment of the Stimson Doctrine as a diplomatic weapon...
...have a great shock and surprise for you," said Senator Robinson with mock gravity. "Restrain yourself. Congress is organized and ready to receive any communication you desire to make...
Same day in Tampa, Federal Judge Alexander Akerman handed down a decision that clipped the Eagle's talons. Several cleaners and dyers joined in asking a court order to restrain Samuel Bazemore of St. Petersburg, Fla. from advertising prices in what is known in the South as "pressing clubs," lower than those in force in that trade area. The Judge refused the order because: 1) only the Federal District Attorney has authority to appeal to the courts for enforcement of the Recovery Act; 2) Samuel Bazemore was admittedly not engaged in interstate commerce and Congress therefore had no constitutional...
...retains its Moscow headquarters. On the other hand, M. Litvinoff promised that "it will be the fixed policy of the Government" of Russia (he could not promise for the Party headed by Josef Stalin) to "refrain" in the most scrupulous manner from any interference in U. S. affairs; to "restrain" from such interference "all organizations of the Soviet Government or under its direct or indirect control, including organizations in receipt of any financial assistance from it"; to refuse to harbor on Russian soil any group "which makes claim to be the Government of or makes any attempt on the territorial...
...suit filed in Rome by Pietro Vernati, 33, estranged husband of Coloratura Luisa Tetrazzini, 62, to restrain her expenditures on the ground that she is a "megalomaniac squanderer" (TIME, July 10): rejection...