Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court which must decide the concern's property value against which income may be figured. The court agrees that the company is worth say $195,000,000, that 5% is not a fair return on that valuation, and therefore voids the State's restraint as a Constitutional violation. The Court then says the corporation may earn 8% on its new and higher value. Rates to consumers are increased to return the corporation a profit to the limit of the Supreme Court's order...
...required hourly rate. A formal letter: of acknowledgement was all that was needed to set the matter at rest for all time. After just having emerged from the mire of publicity which came as a result of the neglect to do this, one can only admire Mr. Shattuck's restraint in his statement, "the College apparently omitted to furnish the formal evidence...
There is undoubtedly a moral to this, too obvious to point out, and the crowd will await the outcome with patience--but fortunately. Englishmen are also noted for their self-restraint...
...always been the policy of Harvard University to impose as little restraint as possible on any activities of the undergraduate other than academic. The policy is an excellent one and undoubtedly works out to the complete satisfaction of students and administration alike in the majority of cases. But it has the inevitable result that a few of the more youthful members of the younger generation, inflamed with a burning desire to create a stir in the world, though not quite mature enough to direct their energies into productive channels, from time to time engage in activities of one kind...
Today America's delegates sail for the London Conference. According to President Hoover, who is largely responsible for the existence of the new parley, a definite slash in the seafaring implements of war is desired, rather than the negative restraint of limitation alone. The diplomatic rigmarole of another generation is to be the first contribution to the scrap-heap. In the second attempt of which America is a main instigator, civilization is sanguine of one more affirmation of the futility...