Word: restrainment
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...every court day for over six weeks fourscore New York poultrymen roosted on a bleacher in a Federal courtroom in Manhattan. Alleged racketeers of the poultry trade, they were on trial en masse for conspiracy to restrain commerce (TIME, Oct. 21). Twenty-two defendants pleaded guilty or were dismissed during trial. Last week the jury found 66 of the remaining bleacherites guilty, two innocent...
...suit which had kept house unit number two, beyond McKinlock Hall, from rising above its foundations was dropped by the plaintiff yesterday. The case, which was due to come up in court this morning, was an attempt to restrain Harvard University by injunction from raising a building which would obscure a view of the Charies from a house owned by the plaintiff in the vicinity of Memorial Drive...
...Bird lavished all his paternal feeling on humorless grandson Morgan. Yet when Morgan wanted to go to the War, the Colonel did not restrain, rather he encouraged him. Morgan returned with a French bride. Soon after, Prohibition and its consequent troubles forced old Bird to set his distillery afire. Soon after that he died. Morgan opened a grocery store. Bird home became a Hebrew orphan asylum. Thus ends the pointless tale...
Thou wert fair in the fearless old fashion, And thy limbs are as melodies yet, And move to the music of passion With lithe and lascivious regret. What ailed us, O gods, to desert you For creeds that refuse and restrain? Come down and redeem us from virtue, Our Lady of Pain...
...rate, then reporting "no announcement.'' It formally announced that "when it [the board] finds that conditions . . . obstruct Fed eral Reserve Banks in . . . so managing credit facilities as to accommodate commerce and business, it is its duty . . . to take measures to correct them; which, in the immediate situation means to restrain the use of Federal Reserve credit facilities in aid of the growth of speculative credit." For months no more was heard. Brokers and speculators forgot. Last week when the Federal Reserve Board went into a conference, expected to last three or four days, few noticed it and fewer guessed...