Word: compelled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week he suffered a recrudescence. He was called "Flower Trust." U. S. Attorney Buckner of Southern New York, brought action under the Sherman Law to dissolve an alleged combination of flower growers in a dozen states and 40 wholesale dealers in flowers. It was claimed this was organized to compel the people of Manhattan to buy only hothouse flowers, thus cutting out of the market the flowers of the woods and fields...
...pages, and youngsters consider the post of page a rare political sugarplum. But several of the Senate pages will have to be discharged this fall because the District of Columbia Superintendent of Schools has announced that under a law passed at the last session he has power to compel school attendance of all children under 14 years...
...invasion of the people's liberties. Echoing sentiments against Prohibition expressed by his chief, President Butler, at last year's opening ceremonies, Prof. Young B. Smith of the Law College let fly: "There are many agitators in our midst who have been seized with a desire to compel all human beings to conform to a type, whether it be fundamentalist, teetotaler or 100% American. This will to standardize men they have attempted to justify on the grounds of efficiency, humanity and religion...
...signs were that the French and Spanish would make a tremendous effort to compel Abd-el-Krim to submit before the October rains descend to put an end to operations for the winter. It seemed unlikely, however, that they could accomplish so much in so short a time...
...continues, "One of the chief problems of today is how to enforce the huge output of legal precepts required by the complex life of urban industrial communities. Here again is a subject in which a professorship, in a national school, in which students from every part of the country compel the teacher to consider the question from many points of view, may do great things...