Word: restraining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Premier Baldwin personally summoned the outstanding labor and employer leaders to his residence and requested them to restrain their subordinates from making rash pronouncements of any kind. For a wonder, they heeded and enforced this well advised request. As a result, the week was spent by all concerned in attempting to digest the stupendous bulk of the Report...
Then on Feb. 13, before stock payments, the U. S. district attorney at Manhattan doused that hardy enthusiasm, filed suit in Federal Court there to restrain promotion of the food products concern as a potential violator of the Clayton anti-trust act. The food corporation lawyers laughed, called the suit "a joke." In "about ten minutes" an answer could be prepared, would be filed the next day. None was. Last week lawyers came into court and abjectly consented to the modification of the corporation's intents...
...corporations engaged in commerce where the effect of such acquisition, or the use of such stock by the voting or granting of proxies or otherwise, may be to substantially lessen competition between such corporations, or any of them, whose stock or other share capital is so acquired, or to restrain such commerce in any section or community, or tend to create a monopoly of any line of commerce...
...dullard that the Government found itself indeed most severely compromised by the discovery of the plot through the activities of French detectives, and the arrest of 70 persons including the chief of police of Budapest. Finally Count Bethlen succeeded in getting the Opposition leaders to promise that they would restrain their cohorts from too many embarrassing questions. The Deputies filed into the Chamber itself. President Zitovsky declared Parliament in session: "Not since the Treaty of Trianon was imposed upon Hungary at the close of the War, have we gone through such an ordeal as now. . . . This scandal is inflicting colossal...
...present form "The Man on the Box" is too long: It could have been about two reels shorter without anybody going home in disappointment. Then there is the helicopter invention which seeks to restrain the comedy from becoming entirely a slap-stick affair and succeeds only in worrying the audience all the way through...