Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury his possession of 27 bars of gold worth $200,754.34 and for failure to exchange it for paper currency in accord with President Roosevelt's executive order (TIME, Oct. 9): decision by Federal Judge John Munro Woolsey that the Government has the constitutional right to compel hoarders to report and surrender their gold. Reason : "The right of the Government to take private property of any kind when it is deemed necessary by the appropriate authority for the public good." He ruled, nevertheless, that the order to surrender gold was technically invalid because under the Emergency Banking...
Hyman Barnett Zaharoff, 63, a Lithuanian living in Ruislip, England, who asserts that he is the son of 83-year-old Sir Basil Zaharoff, European munitions tycoon (TIME, Oct. 16), filed claims in London and Paris to compel Sir Basil, now lying ill in his Paris home, to recognize him. He asserted that Sir Basil was Russian-born, submitted an affidavit from the town council of Vilkomir, Lithuania (formerly part of Russia), and marriage and birth certificates establishing that one Manel Sahar married a Russian girl named Haia Elka Karollinski, had a son named Haim Manelevich Sahar. The marriage...
...allies who signed the treaty also promised to disarm. America has been trying in a tactful way to compel obedience by both sides. The moral influence of the United States in working out a peaceful settlement of the disarmament problem is all the greater because of what Hitler has done. Both Republican and Democratic administrations have been sincerely sponsoring every move looking toward disarmament in the world. It is inconceivable that at the very time when Europe is in acute need of disinterested counsel and conciliation that the United States should scuttle the ship. Hence the latest message issued...
...Sept. 26 Mr. Campbell started a civil suit in Manhattan Federal Court to compel the bank to release his gold deposits. In his petition he argued that the President's orders which prevented him from regaining his property were unconstitutional...
...striking Labor is one of the sure signs of recovery, President Green declared: "There have been some strikes but it is some indication of their character and cause to find that in every case Labor has been sustained by the National Labor Board. We have had to strike to compel obedience to the law and we expect we shall have to do so again...