Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Georgia's excess peach crop, which he planned to quick-freeze and market in the off season. As Depression deepened, how ever, Tom Huston's market for quick-frozen peaches froze almost as quickly as Tom Huston's peaches. By the time he decided to abandon the project, he needed cash to pay his debts. Tom Huston went to his bankers, First National of Atlanta. They demanded as collateral his controlling stock interest in the prosperous peanut company. When the note fell due, the bank's affiliate, Trust Co. of Georgia, refused to renew, and control...
...attempt as part of the pathology of political science. After one year of churning and fuming, and after Mr. Johnson's conference, the measurable results are only these, that the administration has built up a large and unsanctioned machinery for the control of industry, that it must either abandon the machinery, or resort, as Mr. Johnson threatens, to the fascist (or the communist) dictatorship that can sanction it. POLLUX
...would be far better to abandon the idea of "testing" the student and instead of answering a question on the examination, let him write a thesis beforehand, with his books in front of him and plenty of time to do his thinking. In this way there would be ample time for examination on the ground covered in the regular work of the course and a better chance to demonstrate the extent of one's real understanding of the work done outside...
...Children, whatever their age, must honor and respect their parents. They are subject to parental rule until the age of majority (18 for boys, 25 for girls). Such rule is exercised by the father; if he should prove incapable in this, by the mother (Art. 220)." "The child cannot abandon his home without the explicit permission of the ruling parent...
...Weir was willing to consent to having "non-employes' " names on the ballots, so that A. F. of L.'s Amalgamated Iron, Steel & Tin Workers Union delegates might be eligible, but he drew the line at voting "ex-employes." He also refused to abandon the secret ballot in favor of the petition system. Deeming that such procedure rules would give outside A. F. of L. men undue advantage, he brusquely notified the Board: "We must consider any arrangement with you terminated...