Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in the Legislatures of almost every state in the Union, in almost every town, city and county in the land, a local utility skirmish was in hot progress. Lower rates, municipal ownership, more stringent regulation, supervision of holding companies were the principal issues. In the Press, utility men were replacing banksters as the favorite object of abuse. But unlike banksters, who suffered in silence, utility men were hitting back. With power production climbing to 1931 levels, their cause was worth the fight...
...Stringent provisions of the stock market control bill were relaxed further today by House and Senate committees...
...Nazi programme is undermined the Propaganda Ministry will function with just about as much force as it does in, say, France. There is no evidence to show that censorship is successful merely because it is thoroughly repressive. The Russia of Alexander III was certainly subjected to as stringent a repression as is modern Germany; yet in spite of this revolutionists were more active and numerous in Russia than anywhere else on the face of the globe...
...unwillingness which represents a natural revulsion from the excessive regulation of the Prohibition era. In view, however, of the conditions that have prevailed during the last few months, I think that this attitude must be altered, and it must be admitted that what is needed is a maximum of stringent regulation. The ideal method, of course, would be to have the Federal government in complete control; for the machinery is ready in the form of the Code Authority, and national regulation would be both more effective and efficient than that of the states. That Mr. Roosevelt has not done this...
...between government cliques: from bitterness to outburst to balm for damaged feelings. As additional balm, Mr. Peek had the satisfaction of seeing three codes (retail food, wholesale food, food manufacturers) that had been transferred from AAA to NRA approved within 48 hr. and sent to the President without the stringent Tugwell amendments: 1) for government control, 2) for complete and honest food labeling and advertising...