Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tickets back where they belonged-in box offices. To Attorney General Hamilton Ward of New York went Bernard H. Sandier and William Russell Willcox,* retained as counsel by 23 nonLeague brokers, to procure an order dissolving the League. Their charge: the League constitutes a monopoly operating in restraint of trade. They illustrated the social usefulness of small "scalpers" thus: New Jersey's Governor Morgan F. Larson last week visited Manhattan with a party of 15 to attend Earl Carroll's Vanities, popular legshow on which the Law has frowned. Unable to obtain sufficient tickets from League brokers...
...content to sit on the ground and idly chat with friends, nor was it the taciturn, retiring inhabitant of the little Northampton law office and the shady new Northampton estate. The Beeches. In returning to his public. Citizen Coolidge brought with him most of the dignity and restraint he had exercised with such success in the White House. Again to the fore were the elevated moral inflection and the conservative economic tone which characterized practically all of his presidential speeches...
...less unanimous than the great men were the small ones, engaged in retailing gasoline. Many of these, impressed by the fact that Socony usually is the first to change a price, felt sure it was dominant. Some stated that there was restraint of trade, that if they cut the price of gasoline no company would sell to them. Others testified no such fate would befall. Witness L. S. Hall, Gulf retailer in Concord, N. H., and the counsel for the defense went into a long discussion of Royal Dutch-Shell's activities. Asked whether he did not know that...
...Dennis King and this technicolor talkie is no exception. At times he ejaculates too heartily, but all in all he does a good performance. The histrionic efforts, however, are drawn down completely by O. P. Heggie, playing the part of Louis XI. He plays the role with such restraint and control that the actor is entirely submerged in the personage depicted. Jeannette McDonald and the stage-sets lend sufficient background and color...
Rather sheepishly the magistrate explained that St. Gandhi was not being "arrested." After much delving the smart advisors of the Viceroy had unearthed an ordinance 103 years old. Under article 25 of this disused law it is still the absolute prerogative of the Crown to incarcerate under "personal restraint'' in India, "anyone against whom there may not be sufficient grounds for institution of judicial proceedings, or against whom such proceedings might not be adapted to the nature of the case." Foreign statesmen could but humble themselves again at this fresh proof of the British "genius for government...