Word: restrainment
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...Assistant Attorney General Jackson, one of the nation's ablest trial lawyers, went to Pittsburgh and did his persuasive best to make Judge Gibson change his mind. He denied that the charges of 1912 and 1937 were identical. In 1912, he declared, the Government had only sought to restrain Aluminum Co. from, certain monopolistic practices; now it was trying to dissolve the company. Since 1912 the company had expanded and extended its control of the market, establishing Aluminum Ltd. of Canada "to prevent competition from abroad." The consent decree of 1912 was still in effect, returned Alcoa counsel...
Last week the Alcoa investigation blossomed out as the biggest corporate antitrust case since the dissolution of old Standard Oil in 1911. In a Federal District Court in Manhattan the Attorney General not only requested perpetual injunctions to restrain Alcoa, its, officers, directors, principal stockholders and subsidiaries from monopolizing or attempting to monopolize the U. S. aluminum industry; Mr. Cummings also asked that Aluminum Co. of America forthwith "be dissolved and its properties be rearranged under several separate and independent corporations." Despite the fact that dissolution of the Standard Oil Trust touched off an historic boom in the shares...
...twists its tail," cabled United Press last week from London. "Within the limits of freedom of the press prevailing in Britain, where there is no censorship, authorities are trying to modulate the openly anti-Italian tone in some leading newspapers. . . . The Cabinet . . . discussed the . . . situation. . . . Authorities sought tonight to restrain British newspapers and news agencies from publishing information likely to incite further the anger of Premier Benito Mussolini...
...restrain in any way Harvard's music courses is rank calumny upon Hesiod's nine Muses. If the cultural side of education is to be broadened or even its present width maintained, there must be a legitimate shifting of funds to ressurect the "open door" policy for Music...
...after almost every previous White victory in Spain's civil war, seemed to be due to the fact that decisive in taking Málaga fortnight ago were Italian forces. These strangers not only lacked the local enthusiasm for Spanish fratricide but quietly did all they could to restrain the acts of General Queipo de Llano, though no one could restrain the words of Spain's hottest-headed "Radio General." By week's end the Spaniards tried, condemned and actually executed in Málaga numbered only 200, this first batch being mostly officers...