Word: restraining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Second Little Show. If Producers William A. Brady and Dwight Deere Wiman had felt free to dispense with the valuable title of their successful intimate review of last season their present attraction would not suffer by inevitable comparison. Last week critics could not restrain themselves from hearking back to the cleverness of last year's show, the clowning of Fred Allen, the gyrations of Clifton Webb, the ululations of Libby Holman...
...moves were made toward consolidating Germany's 3O-odd political factions into fewer, larger, more practical groups. The Conservative People's Party and the Economic party issued a joint election platform. Reactionaries in these groups, however, promptly formed another organization known as the Constitutional party, sought to restrain the three-weeks-old Staatspartei (Constitutional party) from using their name...
Standard. The hearings in the Government's suit to restrain Standard Oil Co. of New York from merging with Vacuum Oil Co. (TIME, March 3 et seq.) reached an end last week in Manhattan. Vacuum Director Harold F. Sheets, the last witness, analyzed world petroleum production in 1929. According to his figures. Royal Dutch Shell was far in the lead with 175,992,000 bbl., with Standard of New Jersey second (101,100,000 bbl.). Socony and Vacuum combined were down in sixth place (57,986.000 bbl.). In daily refinery capacity he put Standard of New Jersey first...
...Attorney General Mitchell brought suit last week to restrain the Elgin, Joliet, & Eastern ("Chicago Outer Belt Line") from transporting products of the U. S. Steel Corp. The commodities clause of the Interstate Commerce Act forbids a railroad to haul commodities manufactured by it or by its subsidiaries. Whether the reverse also holds?that a manufacturer may not own a railroad that hauls his freight? is the question, to determine which the Attorney General is bringing his suit. Should he win, U. S. Steel will be mightily embarrassed, for it will have to give up its control not only...
...infant likes to express itself by making a noise. At an early age, a rattle is sufficient. Later on, much more ingenious methods as the tin horn or drum are resorted to, until wise parents are forced to restrain its wanton lust for noise, or it will become a public nuisance to everyone...