Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is -sumptuous satire in the sets of the barbaric mansion, the realization of all Scarlett's ideals, in which Rhett and Scar lett enshrine their garish passion. In contrast, sudden lyrical shots lighten the cinemagnificence. Technicolor (using a new process) has never been used with more effective restraint than in Gone With the Wind. Exquisite shot: Gerald O'Hara silhouetted beside Scarlett against the eve ning sky at Tara while he propounds to her the meaning of the one thing she has left when everything else is wrecked - the red earth of Tara...
...land, no trust-busting Federal attorney, can interfere when Nature conspires in restraint of trade. In Kansas, No. 1 winter wheat State, the past three months' (September, October, November) "normal" rainfall expectation was 6.09 inches of rainfall; this year, actual rainfall was 1.75 inches. Nebraska, which expects 4.53 inches, got 1.15; Iowa, expecting 7.81 inches, got 2.82. Total U. S. water shortage reached 400,000,000,000 tons, left several States with their next-to-record drought, left Wisconsin with its smallest rainfall on record...
...Japan in holding them; sit tight on the status quo. This policy, for many reasons, is the one which the U. S. is most apt to follow. It is what the indispensable, kindly, wise adviser of the State Department, Stanley K. Hornbeck, calls "a course of self-denial and restraint." It is certainly the course which Ambassador Johnson represents...
...individualism and unrestrained competition; that in the 50-odd years since the Act's passage, a contrary philosophy had grown up-through the Clayton, Capper-Volstead and Marketing Agreement Acts-which held that such associations as the Chicago milk groups were not illegal, and did not act in restraint of trade, since the later legislation sought collectivism and control of harmful competition. Specifically also he noted that the Secretary of Agriculture directly licenses such groups as the milk associations...
Before the Supreme Court on November 15 the Government argued the opposite: that the acts since the Sherman law merely allowed farmers and workers to organize, in order to attain their ends, but did not in any case grant them immunity from prosecution for conspiracy in restraint of trade...