Word: restrictive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Friends of labor "could take comfort from some words: "We must not, in order to punish a few labor leaders, pass vindictive laws which will restrict the proper rights of the rank & file of labor." But his proposal that a joint congressional-presidential commission be set up to draft labor legislation was opening the door to another Case Bill-since that is exactly what G.O.P. congressional members would demand...
...progressive to array class against class in a theretofore classless nation? Was it progressive for the administration to make international commitments secretly? Was it progressive to place in the hands of a few men the power to halt production and paralyze transport? Is it progressive so to restrict industry through myriad conflicting controls that the machine which armed the anti-axis world cannot today supply the essential needs of our own people? I, for one, doubt...
...Arabs and British control Palestine. Arab leaders, fearful that large-scale Jewish immigration with its land acquisition and higher living standards would loosen their hold on the Arab masses, have continually urged Britain, the mandatory power, to restrict further Jewish entry. Pledged by the Balfour Declaration and the League Mandate to help establish a Jewish State in Palestine, the British have been unwilling to carry out their promise because the Arabs threatened their security and oil in the Middle East. Commissions returned from Palestine with trumped-up findings which "proved" that Palestine could not absorb further immigration while Arabs were...
Nationalism flavored many paragraphs: foreigners could not engage in coastwise commerce, nor even own stock in newspapers and radio stations. The Government would control the banks and insurance companies, restrict foreign-owned utility rates and profits...
Princess Juliana of The Netherlands, mother of three, all girls, was again in an interesting condition. As a delicately euphemistic palace announcement put it, the Princess "for a joyful reason has to restrict her activities." Stolid Netherlanders, under petticoat rule since 1890, started hoping for a royal...