Word: restrictively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggestive, to be just as offensive as it likes to "right-thinking people." By FCC doctrine as laid down by Mr. McNinch, the radio may reflect only views and tastes agreeable to one group, those whom FCC defines as "right-thinking" peonle. Mr. McNinch went on still further to restrict the field of radio. He wrote...
...spring of this year he suddenly announced that it was his opinion that commodity prices were too high, although they actually were lower than the level of 1926. He followed this up by doing everything in his power to restrict freedom of markets and the freedom of capital goods industries in the United States. This led inevitably to acute devaluation with the result that, at the most critical moment, the underlying strength of the democratic countries has been greatly diminished and the dangers of war perceptibly increased...
Undergraduate opinion was represented on the broadcast by William W. Hancock '38, president of the Debating Council. He declared that America must give up the "notion of any proper place in cooperative action," and restrict its activity to the "American atmosphere...
From this sort of sabotage the University can hardly defend itself, and the effectiveness of the great service that all the public and educational institutions of the United States render American citizens, lies at the mercy of the government. Although the powers that be may restrict business activity, inflate the currency, and lower the purchasing power of the dollar, they should consider the effects that such a policy has on all those institutions that depend upon fixed returns from invested capital...
Heretofore it has been considered beyond the Reserve Board's legal powers to restrict short sales and that job has been left to the stock exchanges. The New York Exchange has long imposed a margin requirement of ten points on any stock sold short. For a stock selling at $1 this meant not 50% but 1,000% margin. For the average priced stock it meant about 35%, but this was only a minimum and many a brokerage house upped it as high as 50% in special cases. On the 7,000,000-share "black Tuesday" fortnight...