Word: desist
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When they were forced to desist in operating the table in front of the Coop, they asked permission merely to distribute their literature. This appeal was effectively denied them when it was ruled they could make the distribution, but that they would be prosecuted if any papers were scattered around the streets...
...union activity. The National Labor Relations Board decided that A. C. & F. had fired a Negro chainman to satisfy employes who refused to work with him because he would not join the A. F. of L. NLRB's ukase to the company: reinstate the man, "cease and desist from encouraging membership" in any union...
Many a U.S. state has issued cease-&-desist orders against Toronto firms; Pennsylvania has issued 33. The Michigan Securities Commission last fortnight banned a half-dozen Toronto firms from dealing in the state. Nova Scotia's Government formally warned against Toronto's "fly-by-night" stock peddlers...
...Government of Argentina last week ordered Buenos Aires radio station "El Pueblo" to cease & desist from broadcasting the sound of a horse neighing. Reason: the sound is "contrary to elementary esthetic standards...
Mother Advocate, Harvard's oldest publication and the nation's oldest college literary periodical, rose from its grave last night to announce the starting of a new competition tonight at 7:30 o'clock and to rescind its mid-July "cease and desist" order. Reason for the resurrection was the "considerable improvement in finances", Advocate members announced...