Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marshal Wu, striking a table with his fist, cried: "Not only the Japanese compel me, but God also! Well, the answer is still...
Significance. When prosecution loomed, Ford and Chrysler accepted consent decrees, agreeing not to compel dealers to use their finance companies, provided that General Motors stood trial and lost. General Motors, carrying the ball for the big three, expects to appeal the case all the way to the Supreme Court. The final decision in G. M.'s case will determine whether the 370-odd independent U. S. finance companies can cut themselves in on the profitable installment business of the motor industry...
...Littick papers are the safest bet. According to U. P., the terms Earl Jones's Beach offered were "unreasonable," therefore not acceptable to the home office. Now Earl Jones threatens to sue, in the hope that he can compel U. P. to give him the wire for which he feels that he contracted. Meanwhile the Litticks are using all three services, and Beach has signed with Transradio Press for five years. Little Transradio (with only 50-odd U. S. newspaper clients, compared with U. P.'s 1,100, and A. P.'s 1,360) is at best...
Franklin Roosevelt's conclusion seemed a thunder-stealing echo of Isolationist Charles Lindbergh, who last fortnight begged the U. S. to make itself a citadel of democracy. Said the President: "Fate seems now to compel us to ... maintain in the western world a citadel wherein . . . civilization may be kept alive...
...bail out those who last week speculated on that huge business, U. S. industry might face a 1921-type collapse. The Securities and Exchange Commission kept a weather eye out for a peace scare that might shake the public out of the market, precipitate a crash severe enough to compel it to close markets; or the New York Stock Exchange to fix maximum daily price changes...