Word: restraining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That since "officials of the State of Minnesota have long sought to restrain the Press in the performance of its functions" and since "the oppressions of the Press have been characterized by a campaign of violence against editors criticizing improper political-gangster alliances, culminating in the murder of Walter Liggett . . . the Press of this country should resist the attempts of such alliances in Minnesota or any other State to abridge the freedom of the Press...
...Peace of the World better than the Five-Power Washington Treaty (which ended naval building races for 15 years with its 5-5-3 ratio) and the Nine-Power Washington Treaty (which operated for a decade to keep the "Open Door" for of a China decade ajar to and restrain the the aggressive proclivities of Japan). Last week, with these treaties about to expire, the London Naval Conference had whipped another into shape to be signed this week at St. James's Palace. Appropriate speeches were to be made by President Roosevelt's grey and graceful little Ambassador...
...last three minutes of play, pulling the game out of the fire, and gaining a thrilling victory for the Crimson by one point, 32-31. He distinguished himself no less in the first Yale game, scoring 11 points despite the efforts of Larry Kelley and two other Elis to restrain...
...farm-product processors. By last week many a processors' customer was impatiently looking for his cut. In Manhattan a small, blond Ultimate Consumer named Edwin Reiskind brought suit "on behalf of myself and all other consumers of agricultural products." This Russian-born left-winger sought to restrain Standard Milling Co., National Biscuit Co., Wheatena Corp., Postum Co., Consolidated Cigar Corp., Corn Products Refining Co. and 19 other companies from "disposing and wasting" any of their refunded tax. Plaintiff Reiskind, a lawyer, conceded that a prorata rebate to all consumers would be impossible, thought that the money should revert...
...Left has so often made in France, thus enraging the populace and strengthening the Right on the Rebound. Elder leaders of the Radical Socialists, such as famed "Edouard I" Herriot, who was made the goat of France's currency debacle in 1925 and 1926, have tried vainly to restrain the younger Radical Socialists led by the Party's irascible new President "Edouard II" Daladier...