Word: restricted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About the only virtue of this silver piece is that it is not a germ carrier, such as the paper bill. It is bulky, ostentatious, and is a nuisance to carry in large numbers. Nevertheless the Treasury Department, in an attempt to restrict the present inflation of the currency system and gradually call in excessive paper money, has deemed it wise to reissue the coin as an aid to further stabilization of our monetary system and a return to a gold standardization of values...
...dependent almost wholly on the situation of a "fight to the finish" between union labor on one side and on the other an organization which is doing its best to get rid of an exclusively unionized labor. We have blamed, with reason, the Bethlehem Steel Company for seeking to restrict the sale of its steel to "open shop" builders, but it must be acknowledged that the offence of these manufacturers is mild compared with that of labor union officials who manage to unionize establishments merely in order that they may make great fortunes in bribes wrung from contractors and others...
...unskilled worker before the twenty-five dollars in my pocket was exhausted or else, according to a pledge, live the life of a hobe for six months, I have better comprehended the terrible fear of joblessness that haunts the mind of the unskilled laborer and consequently forces him to restrict output so as not to work himself...
...Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, word has gone out that it will probably be necessary to restrict the size of the entering class in order to prevent a lowering of the educational standards of the school. The facilities of the Business School are bound to be taxed to the utmost this year anyway. Many recitations will have to be held in the basement of the various college buildings because there is no room for them elsewhere. Some 400 men are expected to seek admission to the Business School, and this will make the total enrollment something like...
...present the plan is to restrict the membership of the organization to about 60 men who are known to have an interest in such a movement. Later on, in all probability the membership will be extended, and, in addition to the discussion meetings, men will be sent out to talk before civic organizations, labor unions and similar bodies...