Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commissariat was more brusque. Retaliating against Britain's embargo, they declared a counter-embargo against British goods. This was to be no 50-80% embargo but a complete stoppage of the importation of British goods of any description. Three riders to the Russian embargo made it even more stringent...
...Singer, guilty of "willful misapplication of corporate funds." They have been sentenced to a term in Sing-Sing of from three to six years. The evidence given in this inquiry and others of the recent past indicates that the crime is common, and can be met not by more stringent laws, but by more vigorous prosecution of the present statutes...
...real source of infection will remain untouched until a much stricter Federal control is imposed permanently upon the whole American banking system. Legislators and technicians must argue over the important differences between control exercised through a National Bank, owned and operated by the Federal government, or through a more stringent Federal Reserve System, of which every banking institution in the country must become a member. Either the government is to enter directly into business, or it must exercise a very minute and comprehensive authority over corporations which have hitherto grossly abused their great power. But whatever solution is put into...
...Mathematics departments several men in their second year of graduate work have been selected, and there are at present in Mathematics A some who have scarcely attained their majority. While it is true that these men may exceed most of their contemporaries in maturity and initiative, the stringent requirements for an advanced degree necessarily restrict the time at their disposal for teaching duties...
...Atlantic City last June, Floyd Leslie Carlisle served notice on the N. E. L. A. that it must purge itself if it wished to avoid stringent Federal supervision. Floyd Carlisle comes from that centre of natural power, upstate New York. He is the robust board chairman of six companies (one of them, Niagara Hudson, is world's largest producer), speaks for the Morgan utility interests, is the nation's No. 1 power tycoon. Last week he and Board Chairman Bernard Capen Cobb of Commonwealth & Southern Corp. did something about it. They invited the nation's utility tycoons...