Word: abstainers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advice, apparently, was to abstain from pressing President Grau too brusquely to resign. The pressure, according to Havana correspondents, was exerted by Senor Dorta Duque, "a close friend of Mr. Welles." When the Ambassador denied, just before he left Havana, that he had acted in any other role than that of "friendly observer," Uruguay's Dr. Fernandez said: "A rupture was produced by persons who represented themselves as connected with Mr. Welles...
...article Will France Go Fascist? by Huddleston. ¶"Do not make up the paper in such a way as to have all the reports of accidents and crimes follow one another, for it is not desirable to fill half-pages with catastrophic news. ¶"Warning is hereby given to abstain from using the words 'supreme hier archies,' as the party has only one: Il Duce. ¶"In announcing the celebration to be performed on the arrival of the Atlantic flyers in Rome the Carlino made use, in yesterday's number, of the word 'apotheosis.' This...
Striking, in view of Comrade Litvinoff's promise to President Roosevelt that members of the Soviet Government would abstain from fomenting Communism in the U. S., is the Soviet Encyclopaedia's flat statement that in 1929 Stalin flayed both the German and U. S. Communist Parties for their "rightist opportunism"-i.e. their failure to foment Communism with sufficient "leftist violence...
...applying for admission to William Jennings Bryan University, I am fully aware that the drinking of liquor of any alcoholic content whatsoever is not tolerated by the Institution. I hereby pledge myself to abstain totally from such indulgence in any degree, while a student in the University. ... I further pledge myself neither to smoke nor use tobacco or snuff in [the buildings] of the University; and should I indulge in the use of tobacco at all, I agree to confine myself to its use at the times and in the places designated. ... If a young woman, I pledge myself...
Havana's Chief of Police is Antonio B. Ainciart. Last week he issued a general order. No mention was made of the police habit of shooting anti-Machadoans on sight under the informal ley de juga, but, ordered Chief Ainciart, "The members of the force must abstain from harsh or insulting language in all cases...