Word: desist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small crumbs, the bankers praised the amendments to the Securities Act, humbly suggested a few others to make the law more workable. They thanked the Government for aiding their oldest clients, the railroads. And, most notable of all, they called upon their biggest clients, the public utilities, to desist from their efforts to block the Government's power plans...
...body politic. Missouri Public Service Co. has a power plant at Concordia, Mo. The city fathers applied for a PWA loan-grant to build a municipal plant. In a Kansas City Federal court the private power company promptly prayed for an injunction, ordering the town government to desist and refrain from its purpose...
...Hitler Youth discovered that August Hoppe had "falsely posed as the Hitler Youth press chief." It was further discovered that Hoppe had been expelled from the Hitler Youth. In a final effort to appease Christians, Pagan Hoppe was berated for his "heinous attacks on Christianity," and ordered to desist for one month, during which time his pagan organ Nordland was suppressed...
...piquant evidence of the sturdy enterprise of Jung & Wulff who during the U. S. period of Prohibition sold 4,000 cases yearly of "non-alcoholic absinthe." In what New Orleans calls "the legal confusion which followed Repeal," Jung & Wulff sold 1,500 cases of absinthe until ordered to desist last...
...Germany last week nothing was clearer than that Realmleader Hitler either cannot or will not cause Nazis to desist from their attack upon Jesus Christ. The attack last week was in fuller, more exuberant cry than at any time since the Nazis took power. It was more vituperative than China's anti-foreignism of 1926-27, and was exceeded in blasphemy only by Soviet Russia's campaign against all religion a decade...