Word: restricted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think there'd he too much change in Council under a plurality system," declares incumbent Edward A. Crane, CCA-endorsed. "We would still have coalition government in Cambridge. Unfortunately people will go back to bullet-voting which is un-American. It entices people to restrict their franchise." Crane does favor retention...
...Milton E. Lord, director of the library, at first refused to restrict the books in any way. But it was getting near election time, so members of the City Council and even Boston's Mayor, John B. Hynes, began to call for various forms of restriction. On October 4, 1952, the trustees voted to "weed out" certain "obvious Communist propaganda documents" from the library. The Post then sent reporters to the towns of metropolitan Boston to publicize any which kept Soviet and pro-Soviet periodicals in the open...
...exempt under all proposed plans. Instead, the biggest dent, dollarwise, would be made on those who have the most to spend on nonessentials. As for a pyramiding of the tax, Congress could easily prevent this by requiring retailers to leave out the tax when computing markups. The tax might restrict sales temporarily. But at the same time a deflationary period might be the best time-politically-to impose such a tax, since its impact would be less if imposed on falling prices...
...Condemned book-burning: "Resolved, That the freedom to read is a corollary of the constitutional guarantee of freedom of the press, and American lawyers should oppose efforts to restrict...
...Government now has control over almost every kind of debt except consumer credit. If it wants to tighten up on housing credit, it can boost rates on Government-insured mortgages; if it wants to restrict bank loans, it can boost reserve requirements. But it has had no direct control over consumer credit since the Federal Reserve Board's power to fix minimum down payments and maximum payoff periods (Regulation W) expired last year...