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...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...
...these gentlemen have that sense of patriotism which outruns immediate profit, and a desire to see the country recover, they will close up these transactions and desist from their manipulations. The confidence imposed upon me by law as a public official does not permit me to expose their names to the public. Otherwise I would gladly...
Last week Kansas Attorney General William Amos Smith hesitated about taking action against Brinkley sought by medical men, which might result in the loss of his license.* In one day Attorney General Smith received nearly 300 communications from ardent supporters of the Radio Clinic begging him to desist. Druggists over the state, waxing fat on the proceeds from the prescriptions, also sided with Brinkley...
...defend himself. He said: 'No. We should not resist evil, men. If another Genghis Khan should come along and we defend ourselves, we would only anger him and more of us would become his victims. If we did not resist, he would kill a few, but soon desist...
Last week the Federal Trade Commission announced a victory. A certain tobacco company, which the Commission was careful not to name, had agreed to "cease and desist forever" from allegedly unfair methods of competition. The Commission objected particularly to the testimonials in this company's advertising and to its advertising advocacy of cigarets as an aid to slenderness. "Advertising matter [of this company]," reported the Commission, ". . . contained a testimonial or indorsement purporting to be that of certain actresses in a musical show who were credited with the statement to the effect that through the use of respondents' cigarets...