Word: restraining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus ended the six-week trial of General Motors, accused of conspiring to restrain interstate commerce by forcing its dealers to specify that all the cars they sell on installments be financed through General Motors Acceptance Corp. The jury's strange verdict seemed to say that there had been a conspiracy without conspirators. But no seer was needed to guess at the jury's real meaning: that the men accused were no criminals, but the practice had better be stopped...
...also go to war. Despite a great Anglo-French outcry of resonant warnings that further aggression would be met "by force", the Nazis believed that when the showdown came Britain and France, as they did last summer over Czecho-Slovakia, would not only back down but would try to restrain Poland from resisting...
...members by notably aggressive "defense," Mr. Lewis announced last week that unpeaceful C. I. O. hereafter will carry its war to the enemy, which claims 3,600,000 members. First example of his new tactics followed forthwith. In Manhattan Mr. Carey's union sued for an injunction to restrain A. F. of L. from boycotting (refusing to install or handle) electrical products made by C. I. O. workers. Thus Labor, by requesting an injunction, turned upon itself a favorite weapon of anti-union employers...
...Republic's have been brought against Labor, partly because many employers are so ignorant as to believe that unions are not "responsible," not liable to suit. Other reasons: litigation is slow, costly, uncertain; employers sometimes prefer to try to break unions before they have acquired the power to restrain trade. Anti-union employers got their great awakening only last April when Apex won its verdict for $711,000 in triple damages against Branch 1 of C. I. O.'s American Federation of Hosiery Workers (TIME, April 10). The Apex strike was a sitdown, which the U. S. Supreme...
...Extended its attack on the Giannini interests by seeking a permanent injunction to restrain Timetrust, Inc. from further sale of certificates representing ownership in various Giannini banks. About $1,600,000 in such certificates is outstanding. SEC charged that they are a means of "obtaining money ... by means of untrue statements" such as that their purchase is similar to starting a savings account. Timetrust's President Meredith Parker retorted that SEC was using "unlawful and unwarranted tactics" to embarrass the Giannini family...