Word: abstaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This last clause, which carefully does not bind Russia to abstain from spreading Communist propaganda in Estonia, seemed to mean that the country will be spared for a time such outright Bolshevization as the Russians are putting through in their part of Poland. Military experts said that the Pact definitely transforms Estonia from a country capable of fighting for its independence into one completely at the mercy of the Soviet ships, planes and troops which are now to be based on her soil...
Last week U. S. publishers were reassured. The Newsprint Association of Canada announced that its mills could meet increasing demands, were pledged to abstain from profiteering. A few days later mighty International Paper Co., whose price usually guides the market, said that until next spring newsprint would continue to sell...
General Johnson had declared a truce on verbal bombing for the duration of hostilities: "I am going to be ... careful ... to abstain from too many joyous wisecracks and in my small way hold up the hands of every person in public life who is trying ... to keep us out of war. ..." A few days later he forgot his resolutions when (in a column favoring censorship for radio) Dorothy Thompson wrote: "Do we want to hear General Johnson presented as a military expert and . . . make remarkable (and most inaccurate) statements about why we entered the last...
...impression" that the Prime Minister had dictatorial ambitions, would find it more diffi. cult from now on. "I frankly say that I despair when I listen to speeches like that to which I've listened this afternoon." Then, despairing Member Cartland trooped off to the smoking room to abstain from voting on a measure of confidence, as did some 40 other Conservatives. The cloakrooms gossiped that party whips handed the names of abstainers to Mr. Chamberlain, were demanding Mr. Cartland's political hamstringing, that Mr. Chamberlain, like Mr. Roosevelt, faced a purge of his own party. The vote...
...barred by the Constitution from succeeding himself when his first term comes to an end in November 1940-last week got off to an early but gentlemanly start. President Cardenas' Cabinet, three members of which recently resigned in order to become eligible for the Presidential race, pledged to "abstain radically" from political activities during the campaign in order "to keep the people from having barriers in the free expression of their will...