Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this Texas area, which is as big as Massachusetts and Connecticut combined. Last week, President Carpenter offered to sell this chunk of his system to LCRA, saying "the difficulties which confront power companies, faced with competition from power projects which are heavily subsidized by gifts of Federal funds, compel us to work out some plan with you to prevent the destruction of our properties. . . ." Mr. Carpenter also wound up with a pious hope: that LCRA would stop urging Texas municipalities to build their own plants-for if Federal competition forced the big utility systems to take heavy losses from competition...
Because he owed her $40,000 under a separation agreement, Alfred Cleveland ("Blumey") Blumenthal, Broadway promoter, was sued in Manhattan by his wife, onetime Follies Girl Peggy Fears. Said his sworn counter-complaint: "She tried to compel me to associate with her." Mourned Peggy Fears in Hollywood: "I'm down to my last string of pearls...
...Cartoonist Harold Morton Talburt of the Scripps-Howard chainpapers drew the week's ablest Third Termite cartoon-a paraphrase of Democratic Pressagent Charles Michelson's remark of last fortnight that "duty" might compel Franklin Roosevelt to run again (TIME, Aug. 15). While the President in uniform stands contentedly on the second (term) sack and a harassed elephant pitcher stands afraid to pitch lest the runner steal third, Mr. Manager Michelson runs out on the diamond shouting: "Aw quit worryin' about him! He ain't gonna run-that is he ain't unless...
...vague memory of my son and in vivid hopes of their sons, if parents, while preserving freedom of speech, compel the integrity of public education, then my son may not have died wholly in vain. But should parents fail in this perpetual vigil of peace, then in war will come slaughter between Communist sons and loyal sons -not abroad but at home...
...sleeping with three other children in one bed, four more Goodman children in another bed in the same room. Mother Goodman, accustomed to peasant ways, refused to send Johnny to an isolation hospital or keep him from the other children. The health authorities, unable to find a law to compel Mother Goodman to do what she did not want to do with her brood, placarded the house and went away. Johnny got well. None of the other children got diphtheria...