Word: refrains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the stockholders of Container Corp. of America received a printed postcard from their company, beginning with the well-worn refrain: "It is our policy to give our stockholders full information at all times. . . ." Prepared to slog through the usual corporate platitudes, Container stockholders opened their eyes wide at what followed: "We recognize that while matters of considerable importance will be submitted at the Annual Stockholders' Meeting in Chicago it may be difficult or impossible for many of our Eastern stockholders to attend this meeting because of distances involved. Therefore, I cordially invite you, or your duly accredited...
...Pending further notice all major and minor leagues and clubs will refrain from making any additional commitments, arrangements or authorizations for radio broadcasts of ball games...
...TIME wishes to abide by its slogan, "Curt, Clear, Complete" it will refrain from publishing second-hand information of superficial nature culled from unreliable sources...
...Czechoslovakia, Columnist Westbrook Pegler summed up his impressions: ". . . The show served two very useful purposes. It prevented, for the time being at least, a brutal raid on the German Jews. ... It also vindicated the contention of those who opposed American participation that the Nazis could not be trusted to refrain from political and military propaganda...
...fascism, it will protest vehemently against this most fascistic treatment accorded to Major-General Hagood. If, on the other hand, it is a body whose sole aim is to perpetuate New Dealism, or, perhaps, to turn it into something even more socialistic, we can only expect it to refrain from criticizing its master, just as we would expect the N.S.L. and the S.L.I.D., of which it is largely composed, to refrain from criticizing Soviet Russia, and the dictatorship of Stalin...