Word: suspending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cabinet's first act was to petition and receive the Emperor's signature upon a decree authorizing all banks to suspend payments for the three weeks to ameliorate the fiscal crisis...
...Yone Suzuki, 73, "the wealthiest woman in Japan." Awful was the catastrophe last week when this frail, slim lady, garbed as always in the mode of old Nippon, announced briefly that the liabilities of Suzuki & Co. total one quarter of a billion dollars, and that the firm will temporarily suspend payment on certain of its obligations. The ensuing crash on the Tokyo bourse was similar to what might be expected in Wall Street should J. P. Morgan & Co. make a similar announcement. At Tokyo all quoted securities registered an average drop of ten yen, and the yen itself moved down...
This unprecedented step on the part of the Vagabond is due to certain exigencies which it is not needful to discuss here, but which make it seem advisable for him to suspend his wanderings until Monday, February...
...apparent compassion for those so unfortunate as to have suffered the tyranny of the law is an expression of her true feeling; on the other hand it may be the result of her political method. Her attitude, however, has prompted at least one criminal court of Texas to suspend its criminal calendar until the expiration of Mrs. Ferguson's term, the eighteenth of this month. But whatever the motive, a governor who abuses the pardon power to the extent of forcing courts to withhold their convictions until the expiration of his or her office in order to avoid a reversal...
...dull stillness. Their Emperor lay dying at Hayama (TIME, Nov. 22 et seq.). They knew that the shades of his 122 imperial ancestors were assembling at Tokyo in awful conclave round the Imperial Shrine in the Chiyoda Palace. It was as though the people of the U. S. should suspend all activity, believing that Washington, Lincoln, Pierce, Arthur and the 23 other dead Presidents had gathered, majestic ghosts, at the Capitol...