Word: desist
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...Tombstone makers were ordered to cease and desist from advertising their stones as "everlasting." Said FTC: "Exaggerated...
...signing the stipulation, Kidder demanded hearings, soon found himself on a legalistic merry-go-round which whirled him around for five years. The FTC held hearings in a half dozen different cities (with Kidder often acting as his own lawyer to save money), finally issued a cease and desist order: stop representing that Koatsal has any lubricating value except for what oil it contains. A less stubborn man might have let this blow finish him; Kidder stuck on until he reached U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. There last fortnight he won his case. Impressive was the list...
Cease And Desist...
...issued a "cease and desist" order against the Mills, directing them to stop discriminating against union members in their hiring policy, and requiring them to pay to three workers the wages they would have received had the corporation not unlawfully refused to hire them...
...Gandhi: "I would declare my heresies and be shot. ... I should ask you to declare your views against Japan and in so doing make Japan live through your death. But, for this, inner conviction is necessary." Said Kagawa: "The conviction is there. But friends have been asking me to desist." Said Gandhi, knowing nothing of doing nothing except on the advice of friends: "Don't listen to friends when the friend inside you says 'Do this.' " Purge. First victim of the new nation alist purge in Japan last week was the Salvation Army. After dismissing...