Word: restricting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...embassies in Berlin started battling with the Foreign Exchange Control Bureau which stubbornly upheld the boycott last week. Hinting at possible U. S. reprisals, Vice President Basil Harris of U. S. Lines declared: "About 83% of the transatlantic trade today is of American origin. Any German policy which would restrict American trade would automatically react to the detriment of Germany. We hope Germany can see her folly before it has harmed her and harmed...
...Morgenthau* told how he had been working "day and night" since the Conference opened to line up the World's Big Five wheat exporting countries (U. S.. Canada, Russia, Argentina, Australia) in a pact to enforce 15% cuts in their next year's wheat crops and restrict exports. Since rich & pious Canadian Premier Richard Bedford Bennett came to the Conference proposing such a plan he joined forces eagerly with Mr. Morgenthau. Because a wheat pact may lead to diplomatic recognition and because Russia is having a hard time just now to grow a wheat surplus anyway. Uncle...
...whole situation is a blot and nothing more. It is incredible that any administration should be unable to modulate the expression of student opinion without resort to spectacular punitive tactics. Part of the difficulty no doubt lies in the fact that outside influences force this particular college to restrict free speech more than is just. The rest of the fault is in the apparent inability of the college officials to develop a relation of trust and cooperation with its students, and is inexcusable...
...sick will definitely result in a postponement of recovery. Such a control will strike at the producer as well as labor. The manufacturer must choose between one of two alternatives: he must either reorganize his system on a part-time-shift basis which will be costly, or he can restrict his total business using the present personnel on the thirty-hour basis. Both represent a handicap. As for the effect on labor, the present legislation will force a shortening of hours in many industries, and there will result a decrease in the total wages paid to labor. Certainly there...
...processing tax will not necessarily become operative with respect to all commodities. If a satisfactory price could be reached and maintained by trade agreements no tax would be imposed. . . . The chances are that the tax would start at a relatively low figure so as not to restrict retail sales and thus reduce consumption. . . . I would feel that the policy of the bill were being defeated should as a result of a 3? processing tax on cotton an excessive increase in price be passed on to the consumer. The cotton farmer obtains approximately 5? for the cotton in a shirt which...