Word: restraining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President. At Dayton Secretary of State Stimson proclaimed President Hoover "a real fighting Quaker, thoroughly aroused, smashing down his opponents' positions one by one with irresistible logic." Secretary of the Treasury Mills had worn his voice down to a hoarse croak. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, unable to restrain his language longer, blurted out that Governor Roosevelt was "a common, garden variety of liar." Montclair, N. J. put up 327 street flags for the coming of Secretary of the Navy Adams. After a protest against their use on a political occasion authorities ordered the flags down. Town Commissioner Washington Irving...
...extraordinary proportion of criminal, Communist and non-veteran elements amongst the marchers should not be taken to reflect upon the many thousands of honest, law-abiding men who came to Washington with full right of presentation of their views to Congress. This better element acted at all times to restrain crime and violence, but after the adjournment of Congress a large portion of them returned to their homes and gradually these better elements lost control...
Early last week Supreme Court Justice Ellis J. Staley, a Republican, ruled that he had no power to restrain the Governor where responsibility was "to the people and his own conscience...
...Federal Trade Commission, trade associations are ever eyed suspiciously by the Attorney General's office. The potent Bolt, Nut & Rivet Manufacturers Association was dissolved. Famed suits are pending against the Asphalt Shingle & Roofing Institute, the Sugar Institute (TIME, Feb. 22). Charges brought are generally "combination and conspiracy" to restrain trade or efforts to fix prices.* Even the steel industry has drawn Governmental fire, for allegedly pegging the price of rails at $43 a ton since 1923. Through the twilight zone between legal co-operation and anti-trust law violation, President Lament will have to thread his way. Knowing that...
Many persons prefer not to have their name in the directory nor on "information's" lists. Not so Gould & Newman. Last week they sought $250,000 damages for the omission, which they claimed was an error, likewise sought to restrain distribution of the directory until their name and that of Senior Partner Edward J. Gould is included...