Word: canceled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...either wrong or right. If it is right, and a good thing for the public, the more it advertises and the greater the volume of business it receives, the greater the public good. If the trust company is wrong, why merely prohibit its advertising? Why not have the state cancel its charter? Finally, if a business has a legitimate reason for existence and yet can be advertisingly gagged through legislation that will benefit only a minority, where will the line be drawn? Why not laws to prevent the advertising of automobiles because this advertising decreases the demand for postillions...
Comrade Semashko, Commissar of Public Health, averred that the War Lord was in Moscow, that his health had forced him at the last moment to cancel his trip to the Caucasus, that he was busy on some literary work, his health meantime much improved. The Commissar said that the War Lord was not in prison, but living quietly in a modest apartment in Moscow and would go south in a few days...
...attend receptions, luncheons, banquets without end. One evening, having retired early, he was aroused from his bed at 10 p.m. by two generals sent by the President to invite him to a banquet; and he rose and went. On another evening, though not feeling well, he refused to cancel an engagement to attend the opera. And afterwards he fell...
...close in Los Angeles was the suit of the Government to recover the Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve, leased to the Pan-American Petroleum & Transport Co. of Edward L. Doheny. Almost a year since the scandal began to brew, it is still sputtering?the Government trying to cancel the lease and make void the contract whereby the Doheny company tapped the California reserve and paid its royalties in tankage constructed for the Government at the Pearl Harbor naval base, Hawaii...
Despite explanations that the loan was to meet pressing obligations and was not to show especial love for the U. S., the "Klan" cabled Fuka- zawa, President of the Electric Co., who was in the U. S., to cancel all bond subscriptions or make up his mind never to return to the land of the Cherry Blossom and the Death Penalty Club...