Word: restraining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then the American statement takes on added significance. Some force must be found partially to restrain Hitler,--to force him at least to move less quickly--or he will precipitate a war before England and France are ready. If he can be restrained until the military force of those countries, allied with the economic power of the United States, is far greater than his, then there will be no war. Without committing herself to a military alliance, the United States can supply that restraining force. It is in her own interest to do so, for any major...
...last week was called primarily to demand from Homer Martin a report on what he and Harry Bennett, personnel director of Ford Motor Co., were up to together in recent meetings (TIME. Nov. 23, et ante). The Mortimer-Frankensteen faction this week asked a circuit court in Detroit to restrain Homer Martin from consummating an "illegal conspiracy" with Ford "to disrupt the union and establish a company-dominated fake. . . .:' Messrs. Frankensteen and Mortimer suspected that a deal was in the making whereby canny Mr. Bennett would deliver 100,000-odd Ford workers (and union votes) to Mr. Martin...
...first struggle for expansion against Russia (1904-05), the U. S. was totally impotent in Japan and China. Unless Congress sent the Navy to enforce U. S. trade rights-which action U. S. business interests in China would deplore as strongly as U. S. home sentiment would restrain it-there was nothing further Secretary Hull could do or say. Without hindrance from any other Power, Japan by last week had taken unto itself 430,000 square miles of new territory, well sprinkled with blood. For 17 months it had bored like a host of deliberate, conscienceless termites into the vast...
...investigation in Chicago. Last week two criminal indictments under the Sherman Act resulted. One charged 14 corporations and 43 individuals with conspiracy to fix prices and control the supply of liquid milk in the Chicago area. The other charged 20 corporations and 20 individuals with a nationwide conspiracy to restrain the sale and use of counter-freezers with which retailers, hospitals, schools, etc., could make their own ice cream...
...complicity of the German Government was proved by the fact that in most cases police made no effort to restrain the so-called "mobs." These consisted mostly of young Germans who drove up in cars...