Word: restrictions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...party, I know, feel it ought to be extended rapidly. But it is not wise in a democracy to go too far in front of public opinion. The British public is slow to make up its mind, but it is thinking hard. . . . Today even Labor wants to restrict the effect of unfair competition from abroad. Only the Liberals would repeal the Safeguarding Act entirely. The Government is ready to facilitate safeguarding if individual industries prove the necessity of their being protected...
Rubber. The British Stevenson Act controlling the production of rubber in the Orient expires Nov. 1. London despatches last week reported British and Dutch rubber plantation owners, who control the world's present output, conferring to form a private group to restrict rubber production, to create an artificial shortage, to shove prices...
...agreed that, because international trade would not be greatly affected, Czechoslovakia may permanently reserve the right to prohibit or restrict the exportation of quartzite; Portugal, the exportation of pine resin...
...intention of President Coolidge, at this session, to include under new immigration laws the countries of the New as well as of the Old World. Any such plan was hit a blow by implication of a resolution introduced at the Pan-American conference, that any American republic may restrict immigration "from a non-American continent." The Latin-American republics were unanimously in favor of the resolution, and it was all ready for passage when United States Ambassador Fletcher, whose duty it has been to puncture such ambitions, rose with a reservation to the terms of agreement, which would render...
...will begin at once. The unexpectedly large number of organizations entering teams in the Intramural League has necessitated the formation of two divisions, one of which will play in the Freshman Athletic Building, and the other in the Hemenway Gymnasium. Lack of space and conflicts with other sports will restrict the time of the contests to the evenings...