Word: desist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commission, which usually aims an antimonopoly broadside at an entire industry, last week drew a careful bead on just one man. Its target: lean, fast-talking Henry J. Taylor, 47, sometime businessman, author (Men and Power, Time Runs Out), radio commentator and onetime Scripps-Howard journalist. In a cease & desist order growing out of a three-year investigation, FTC charged that Taylor, doing business as Manhattan's Package Advertising Co., had created a monopoly in unpatented waxed-paper wrappers by licensing others, setting prices and dividing territories. Through it, said FTC, Taylor had collected $1,300,000 in royalties...
...unusual political alliance developed during the campaign. Curley has received strong support throughout the race from Russel S. Codman, Jr. '20, a Beacon Hill Republican and Boston's third largest taxplayer. Codman, Boston's Fire Commissioner, at a rally last night called on Curley's opponents to "desist from unfair and distorted charges of corruption in the Curley administration...
...investigate all discriminatory practices in schools and colleges; after complaint by an aggrieved person, or when the Commission Chairman "has reason to believe that there is discrimination," the body could begin its investigation. If discrimination were discovered, the Superior Court would then have the power to issue cease and desist orders...
...latter bill defines unfair educational practices and sets up a special office to investigate charges of bias in educational organizations and machinery for ordering guilty institutions to cease and desist from use of discrimination...
...after hearings and a review by the State Board of Education, an educational organization was still found guilty of exercising discrimination it would receive an order from the Board of Education "to cease and desist from unfair educational practices." Such orders would be subject to judicial review...