Word: restrictions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speaking in the House of Commons two weeks ago William Clive Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, announced that two of the big British cruisers that had been building under the terms of the disarmament treaty had been abandoned. At the same time he declared that Britain intended to restrict it cruiser tonnage next year to a mar', below that of the treaty agreement...
Despite the fact that it will probably exclude a considerable number of men from the games the Council decided that it will be necessary to restrict the make-up of the teams in official intramural League games to men who are either in the College or else graduates of Harvard pursuing their studies in the graduate schools. This will exclude graduates of other colleges from competing with their club and fraternity teams. It was also decided that winners of their "H" in a particular sport be ineligible to compete in that sport, but will be eligible in all other sports...
Mexican Scabs. Delegates from Arizona and California railed bitterly against the streams of Mexican immigrants which, not restricted by any U. S. quota law, flood the southwestern labor market and supplant union labor in times of strikes as far north as the Pennsylvania coal fields. Other delegates were less deeply perturbed by the Mexican "menace" and the convention voted only to urge the Mexican Government to restrict its emigration voluntarily...
Other Business. The Association voted: to incorporate itself in Illinois; to continue working for a constitutional amendment changing the inauguration date of U. S. presidents from March 4 to January 1, and fixing the opening of Congress on that day also; to restrict use of the title "attorney" to persons actually admitted...
...Party: The farmers comprised in this party are mostly the large land owners, the small farmer often belonging to the Labor group or the Republicans. In general it supports the government because the government opposes tariff protection. The farmers argue that they cannot afford protection because it would restrict their markets and increase the cost of agricultural machinery, imported mainly from Great Britain...