Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. Heretofore the I. C. C., by rejecting merger proposals, has been telling carriers how they might not consolidate. Its own plan serves to show roads how they now may. The Commission has no power to compel roads to merge in accordance with its plan, which it frankly states is subject to "modification." Since rail consolidations became a public policy in 1920, grave doubts have arisen as to their present necessity. Carriers have improved financially by leaps and bounds, with few weak roads needing the aid of strong ones. The agitation in Congress for additional consolidation legislation is designed...
...Allen proposed that the legislature grant a charter to the Central Bank of Nebraska, compel all other State banks to surrender their charters and become Central Bank branches. The Central Bank would pay off the Guaranty Fund's deficit, capitalize at $20,000,000, become the sole depository for State funds...
...This immemorial prohibition the railroads enforced on the pretext that tobacco smoke, as contrasted with coal smoke, was offensive to lady diners. The roads' real reason was that after-dinner smokers would linger over their coffee, slow up service, keep other passengers waiting for seats. Such dalliance would compel the railroads to haul their diners farther than otherwise...
...injunctions. The Senate Judiciary Committee rejected it as unconstitutionally radical. With the aid of Senators Walsh of Montana, Norris of Nebraska and Elaine of Wisconsin, the A. F. of L. last week concocted a substitute bill which, if adopted, would change the whole character of labor troubles, strengthen strikes, compel employers to ground their injunction applications on legal proof instead of fears...
...venture had riled English moralists. In London since mid-June there has been a first exhibition of Mr. Lawrence's adventures into painting. Two titles were typical: A Boccaccio Story, A Flight with An Amazon. Thousands of Londoners have seen them. Critics have snorted: "Repellent and distorted nudes . . . compel most spectators to recoil in horror...