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...practice, wrote an exhaustive report which the Commission approved. Commissioner McManamy found that the free-movement courtesy between roads led to grave abuses, that it was unfair and discriminatory to the ordinary traveling public, that it was contrary to Federal law. The Commission ordered the roads to "cease and desist," told them to assess one another a "just and reasonable charge" for such service...
...merger which he is now bringing about he will get one more million dollars. After the 1920 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco and a decision that he was through with politics, the Bank of Italy retained him as lawyer at $50,000 a year, on condition that he desist from politics. His Presidential ambitions cost him that job when he stalemated the 1924 Democratic Convention at Manhattan. He still has his western law office in the Bank of Italy's Los Angeles building...
Passer-by, desist from titters...
...build us a monument? . . . Aside from the fate that stares Bart and me in the face, I would not care to know that labor has not the courage to face the battle with a showing of solidarity that will force the hand of the implacable enemy to desist from what it plans to do. ... That is all. I am not writing this out of prison irritation, nor yet because of their cruelty in bringing us back to this stifling place to torture us some more before they burn us, but I want the comrades to know what kind of creatures...
Disarmament. Anglo-U. S. friendship is a sturdy plant. Let us desist pulling it up to inspect the roots. England is as wholly committed to disarming as the U. S. Let nations simply understand and respect one another's practical requirements.?Sir Arthur Willert of the British Foreign Office, long U. S. correspondent cf the London Times...