Word: desist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with that of his neighbor Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray of Oklahoma, skyrocketed crude oil prices from loc a barrel last year to more than $1, he had to defy a Federal Court to do it. Three Federal judges had ordered the Texas Rail-road Commission to cease & desist from enforcing its proration regulations until the conservation law could be reviewed. Governor Sterling, eying the chaos around him, set about enforcing proration come what might. He maintained that his edict could not be reviewed by Federal judges. "But." said the Supreme Court, "if this extreme position could be deemed...
...wishing to transfer. In any case, it is to be hoped that the authorities will not attempt to restrain individuals capable of judging for themselves. Something in the nature of an advisory board for transfer students would be the best solution of the problem. At least the University should desist from creating unnecessary obstacles to this important branch of education...
...cheered on the gamblers." Billions of dollars of foreign securities "now practically worthless" were dumped on the U. S. market. The State Department "without sanction of law" usurped the function of passing on these loans and was therefore "implicated" in the disaster. When the Senate unanimously ordered it to desist as financial censor, Secretary Stimson brushed aside the order "with a contempt that entitled him to impeachment." Declared Senator Glass...
...year to succeed Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes; of heart disease; in Beverly, Mass. In 1923 he caused international shivers by saying that the reparations provisions of the Treaty of Versailles were impossible, would affect Germany's financial situation until revised. Secretary of State Hughes told him to desist from expressing his views...
...know what my father said or did at the dock when confronted with the question of what I was up to but in any case it must have been greatly magnified by gossip-hunters, but I only wish that my parent would desist in future from giving rise to such rotten and unhelpful publicity...