Word: abstainers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Communists have the choice of two alternatives, either to vote for Von Hindenburg or not to vote at all. It is scarcely conceivable that they will consider polling for Hitler at all, since the Communist and the German Fascists are not exactly on speaking terms." Since, if they abstain from voting at all, the election will go to von Hindenburg, and if they vote for von Hindenburg, of course the majority will go in his favor; it looks as though the coming election will be his; unless some untoward happening changes the likely order of things...
...Jahncke claim all the credit for these relief measures, Speaker Garner gets fighting mad. Warned he: "It's well enough to talk of a political truce but let me tell you that the kind of truce we intend is not that the Administration shall continue hostilities while we abstain from them." Last week Speaker Garner led the House into a clear-cut split with President Hoover on Government re-organization for economy's sake. Instead of giving the President blanket authority to trim and weed and consolidate which he requested fortnight ago, the House, by a vote...
Reference has been made elsewhere in these columns to the success at Harvard of rugby as a purly informal game played only for the amusement it gives. The resolution to abstain from an official status undoubtedly expresses the will of the players to keep it so. In England men continue the game years after their college days; they are fortunate in that country because of the great number of amateur rugby clubs. Not the least of the merits of this new association would be an attempt to formulate more local clubs similar to the New York Rugby Club so that...
...independence of Austria is inalienable otherwise than with the consent of the said Council of the League of Nations.* Consequently Austria undertakes in the absence of the consent of the said Council to abstain from any act which might directly or indirectly or by any means whatever compromise her independence, particularly, and until her admission to membership in the League of Nations,* by participation in the affairs of another power...
Three divisions of U. S. citizens are compelled by their religious beliefs to abstain from all work and business from sunset Friday until sunset Saturday: orthodox Jews, Seventh-Day Adventists, Seventh-Day Baptists. Existing legislation in 24 of the States takes no cognizance of this fact. If members of these religious communities observe their own Sabbath, they must also observe the Sunday of other denominations...