Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Springs, Va. met the Investment Bankers Association of America and passed resolutions recommending that embarrassed municipalities be allowed to compromise with the majority of their creditors, urging that the stringent liabilities placed on sellers by the Securities Act be relaxed. Said I. B. A.'s retiring president, Frank M. Gordon (Chicago's First National Bank): "Personally I do not believe that anyone ever intended to pass a law which makes a country dealer who handles $10,000 of a $10,000,000 issue liable for the entire amount...
...also learned that the owners of cars who have been tagged two times or more will be brought into court commencing this morning. If this line of action should fail in dealing with the most frequent offenders, more stringent measures will be taken. The drive against out of state cars will be vigorously pursued, and many have already been removed from the streets by the department when discovered parking overnight...
...Chicago discovered that in the three previous months more of its automobiles had been stolen than new cars registered. For the full year there were 34,246 auto thefts in Cook County (Chicago and environs)-nearly 100 a day. Last week as the Illinois Legislature talked of repealing a stringent new anti-theft law (reason: it might cost money to enforce it) Chicago...
...Chino-Korean People's League is taking steps to prevent similar losses in the future. . . . We are planning a four-point attack on Japan, which involves the expansion of a military training school in Korea, intensified guerrilla warfare in China, more stringent boycott of Japanese goods, and a campaign of terrorism in Korea, Japan and northern China...
...from it ... establish the conditions of a satisfactory life for all, not merely for the few." Most Humanists come from Unitarian. Universalist, Baptist and Congregationalist churches. In recent years 60 Unitarian ministers have embraced Humanism. Their church was dismayed but could do nothing, its own creed being far from stringent. There are Humanist groups in Manhattan. Hollywood, Berkeley, Calif., Sioux City and Minneapolis. They hope soon to form a national organization. The Minneapolis group is under the guidance of a Humanist pioneer, Rev. John Hassler Dietrich who, nominally Unitarian, began preaching Humanism 18 years...