Word: restrainable
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...German people should desert us, that will not restrain us!" he roared in a Berlin speech which timid Press censors first suppressed. "Whatever happens we will take the course that is necessary to save Germany from ruin!" ¶ In Prussia (which is nearly two-thirds of Germany) 24 provincial governors and police chiefs "suspect of Republicanism" were ousted and replaced by reactionary government supporters such as Nazi Rear Admiral Magnus von Levetzow, appointed Chief of Police of Berlin. Next day Prussian police started confiscating the passports of such famed Liberals & Pacifists as Hellmuth von Gerlach, thus cooping them in Germany...
...University is in a good position to help and advise students wishing to transfer. In any case, it is to be hoped that the authorities will not attempt to restrain individuals capable of judging for themselves. Something in the nature of an advisory board for transfer students would be the best solution of the problem. At least the University should desist from creating unnecessary obstacles to this important branch of education...
...President. At Dayton Secretary of State Stimson proclaimed President Hoover "a real fighting Quaker, thoroughly aroused, smashing down his opponents' positions one by one with irresistible logic." Secretary of the Treasury Mills had worn his voice down to a hoarse croak. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, unable to restrain his language longer, blurted out that Governor Roosevelt was "a common, garden variety of liar." Montclair, N. J. put up 327 street flags for the coming of Secretary of the Navy Adams. After a protest against their use on a political occasion authorities ordered the flags down. Town Commissioner Washington Irving...
...extraordinary proportion of criminal, Communist and non-veteran elements amongst the marchers should not be taken to reflect upon the many thousands of honest, law-abiding men who came to Washington with full right of presentation of their views to Congress. This better element acted at all times to restrain crime and violence, but after the adjournment of Congress a large portion of them returned to their homes and gradually these better elements lost control...
Early last week Supreme Court Justice Ellis J. Staley, a Republican, ruled that he had no power to restrain the Governor where responsibility was "to the people and his own conscience...