Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...showed a disheartening loss of $3,000,000. Having organized itself as Mr. Hoover suggested, it last year made $7,000,000. So well had it learned to standardize that last week, in Manhattan, Federal Judge Frank J. Coleman found the Bolt, Nut & Rivet Manufacturers Association an organization in restraint of trade, ordered it dissolved under the anti-trust...
...educated people in the country, there is every prospect for the continued vigor of tabloids and semi-tabloids. Nevertheless the optimism of such an outstanding journalist as Mr. Lippman is cheering. Post-war feverishness has found expression largely in the metro-politan dailies, and a revival of sanity and restraint in the press would be a hopeful sign for American civilization. It will be interesting to observe the ratio between the Times and the Graphic in the subway cars...
Herbert Livingston Satterlee, lawyer brother-in-law of J. P. Morgan, last week flung aside his usual self-restraint and snapped the exclamatory question at Dr. John Augustus Hartwell, president of the New York Academy of Medicine. Mr. Satterlee as lawyer was asking the New York State Department of Social Welfare's permission for San Francisco's Drs. Walter Bernard Coffey and John Davis Humber to operate a cancer research laboratory and clinic at Huntington, L. I. Arguing against the permit were Dr. Hartwell, Dr. Francis Carter Wood, director of Columbia University's Institute of Cancer Research, Dr. William Hallock...
...company considers itself to have a quorum of talent without one blonde actress capable of narrowing her eyelids inscrutably and talking alto. Elissa Landi is obviously the Fox Garbo. She also possesses important qualifications which are her own. Her face is attractive from certain angles; she performs with knowing restraint and a finish quite incongruous to such a story as Body and Soul. In her first U. S. appearance, on the Manhattan stage in A Farewell to Arms (TIME, Oct. 6), her beauty was more noticeable than it is when photo- graphed. Universally praised by critics, she was immediately taken...
...frontpage of the Journal Post an editorial headed "Techy Jim": ". . . If the former Senator were younger, the Journal Post would feel like firing George Cauthen . . . for not breaking his camera over his assailant's head. As it is, we think Photographer Cauthen deserves a medal for . . . self restraint and dignity...