Word: refrain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Agriculture Hyde, two R. F. C. directors and many an insurance man and joint stock land bank official. Upshot of much talk was that all hands would be as lenient as possible on farm foreclosures, that R. F. C. would be a liberal lender to private institutions which refrain from putting the screws on the "honest farmer who tries to pay his debts...
...Yamato and the filial piety of our government officials and to make them realize the seriousness of conditions. ... I must make them realize that they are serving the Emperor. Those who are serving the Emperor should not let one single person in this country suffer from starvation. They should refrain from such luxury as going to summer resorts to avoid a little heat...
...Last week wise Bishop Manuel Irurita y Almandoz of Barcelona ordered all his priests to refrain, without express permission, from attending all political meetings, from "speaking publicly of affairs that foment partisanship...
...governments of Germany and her creditors sign an agreement to this effect at Lausanne but refrain from ratifying it by their several parliaments until after the U. S. elections and until it becomes clear whether the U. S. will cancel in War Debts an amount proportional to the relief afforded Germany by the formula...
...Demanding an accounting of his alleged secret profits from stock manipulations with an eye to recouping in full, it wants specifically $2,375,000. Mrs. Aaron Fox charged that Brother William "zealously guarded the name Fox as his own trade mark," willingly paid members of the family to refrain from capitalizing on it because, even when he "was obliged to retire," he expected to re-enter the film business and "continue to enjoy, for his sole benefit, the monopoly and prestige of the Fox family name." She said that when her husband incorporated Aaron Fox Film Corp., he "incurred...