Word: restricted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best liked and most politic men of Oklahoma, Oilman Ray H. Collins, hastened from Manhattan to Tulsa last week to persuade all Oklahoma oil operators to restrict their daily production and so help stabilize their industry. A committee of operators, conferring in Manhattan under the guidance of President Walter C. Teagle of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, and President W. S. Parish of Humble Oil & Refining Co., had asked him to go on the difficult mission. They represented ownership of three-quarters of the Oklahoma wells and to that extent expected success for Emissary Collins...
...publication, supporting the loan and fellowship funds and improving the quality rather than the quantity of education. In this direction the School has already gone very far. In voting to reduce student numbers next fall and in introducing Honors Courses this year, the Faculty announced its determination to restrict its efforts to giving the best students obtainable the most thorough training possible. This year we have had 55 men in Honors Courses, working individually or in small groups under the supervision of the instructor, on important and practical legal problems. The results of this work have been so gratifying that...
...down by Colonel Lawrence to recount his adventures and the history ha had made. Then he lost the manuscript, rewrote 300,000 words. These were set up and an edition of eight copies printed, three copies being destroyed. By this conduct ? seemingly inspired by a genuine desire to restrict the tale of his personal adventures to the circle of his personal friends ? Colonel Lawrence created the impression that his book must contain devasting secrets. It did not; but the public got that idea, became ravenously curious, and has raised the Colonel's literary fame beyond all reason...
Professor Ferguson then showed that so long as the entire subject was touched upon, the original fields of concentration were too broad to be covered minutely, and it was considered necessary to restrict them. This resulted in the new alignment recently issued...
...Associate Justices Holmes, Brandeis, Sanford and Stone dissented. With brief eloquence Mr. Holmes, 86,* wrote: "We fear to grant power and are unwilling to recognize it when it exists. . . . The truth seems to me to be that, subject to compensation when compensation is due, the legislature may forbid or restrict any business when it has a sufficient force of public opinion behind it. Lotteries were thought useful adjuncts of the State a century or so ago; now they are believed to be immoral and they have been stopped. Wine has been thought good for man from the time...