Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fair conclusion that policyholders had suffered less in depression than bank depositors, brokers' customers, stockholders of investment trusts. Toward the close of the hearing last fortnight, SEC's grey-haired young inquisitor, Gerhard Gesell, showed however, that the record of insurance companies beyond the control of such strict States as New York and Massachusetts had been something less than perfect...
...Gold was permitted on the strict NBC air in belief that it was no lottery. Generally a lottery involves chance, prize and consideration. Pot o' Gold had chance and prize money, but it peddled no tickets. For a chance at the prize, no one had to pay or to do anything. But from the start, the Federal Communications Commission has been pestered with hundreds of complaints about Pot o' Gold. Some came from straight moralists, a few from folks who thought they should have won. But most were from radio stations which had refused similar programs...
Simultancously, Secretary of State Cordell Hull emphasized at a press conference that American vessels still are under strict orders to refuse conveys such as Great Britain reportedly is prepared to offer U.S. ships forced to submit to contraband inspection in belligerent waters...
...American Youth Congress is reported to have set a splendid example of Kremlin democracy by "ejecting" those of its members who dared to introduce resolutions not in strict conformity with the party line. It has been boycotted by Catholic and Republican youth organizations; a formidable rival group claiming almost two million members has sprung up; and further secession movements seem to be well under way. The Arctic war has frozen out the ruling minority and has crystallized the different currents of opinion which had lost themselves in a swamp of lethargic submissiveness to an "aggressive" leadership...
...column, it was his resolution, introduced in July, which prepared the way for the abrogation of the 1911 treaty with Japan-"the longest step on the road to war that the U. S. has taken since President Wilson announced in 1915 that he would hold the German Government to strict accountability for its acts...