Word: desist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...similar underwater position, in a state of disintegration. Saying that dolls in general are not supposed to be "amphibian," the Federal Trade Commission resented the pictures as an unfair, competitive slur on the landlubber doll, ordered American Character Doll to show cause why it should not "cease and desist" from such comparisons...
...rocketeer. Born in Worcester, Mass., where he became professor of physics at Clark University, Goddard started puttering with rockets in 1907. The Smithsonian Institution gave him $12,000 over a period of twelve years. When one of his contraptions blew up over Worcester, the terrified townsfolk forced him to desist. He moved to Camp Devens, later to the desert near Roswell, N. Mex. Since 1930 his expenses have been paid by the Guggenheims...
...subsequent tut-tutting from courtiers, Associated Press put on the world's wires that in highest circles His Majesty was believed to have strongly urged (if he did not command) Captain Anthony Eden, Sanctionist Extraordinary, to assist in making peace quickly by means of The Deal and to desist at Geneva from trying to put through further sanctions...
...that proposal Financier Vanderbilt and his bankers had a number of objections, including the belief that for the banks it might constitute illegal underwriting. Moreover, they strongly urged Mr. Jones to cease & desist from discussing New York Central's financial affairs in the Press (TIME, Oct. 14). Upshot: Mr. Jones published his entire New York Central correspondence, writing Mr. Vanderbilt tartly, ''One very good way to avoid further publicity of this character would be to put your finances in order...
...spotting" service. And from 1927 to 1931 these few companies extracted from the railroads $9,000,000 in rebates for performing for themselves a job which they would not permit the railroads to do. Last week the Interstate Commerce Commission, ruling such payment illegal, ordered the carriers to cease & desist. Wall Street chuckled at the list of manufacturers immediately affected by the I. C. C. order: almost all were plants or subsidiaries of three notoriously hard bargainers-U. S. Steel, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Henry Ford...