Word: restricting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fetish of personal liberty to aid him in regaining the right to drink, although this same idol lay untended and forgotten in the days of war when all men's minds must belong, willy-nilly, to their country. The New Republic, equally impious, destroys his hypothesis that high taxes restrict individual beneficence toward education. On all sides Doctor Butler's pet theories are bombarded with havoc. But evidently he has found a bomb-proof shelter, from which he mocks his adversaries. From the solid materials of scholarship and reflection, he has built an edifice of authority within which he sits...
...Reorganization of the Shipping Board and the Emergency Fleet Cor- poration so as to restrict the Shipping Board to its original duties as a semi-judicial, policy-and rate-making body and to segregate in the Emergency Fleet Corporation the business of operating the Government merchant fleet...
...science of population remains in too hazy a state to make legislative meddling with the birth rate profitable or even safe. Mussolini shows wisdom in his speech Thursday announcing that he would prohibit any attempt to restrict the rapid growth of Italian population, in spite of the fact that the situation is a very "preoccupying feature of the national life." France finds her low birth rate an asset and a liability, and is consequently in a quandary. Her limited supply of cannon fodder has long been considered the weak spot in her armor against the prolific Hun. The deadly baby...
...Government issued a communique to the people urging them to be calm and saying in part: "The public, however, must also consider the grave and exceptional motives, leaving the Government to interpret the Constitution in a manner which, though justified by legal reasons, appears at first sight to restrict Parliamentary rights. The Government is obliged to take account not only of the gravity of the accusations against the Deputies concerned, but also of the necessity of safeguarding, as far as is still possible, the independence of the nation by avoiding, as far as it is able, the giving of grounds...
...Resolutions were passed concerning legal assistance to the poor; concerning a conference to be held in November to restrict the growth and distribution of opium...