Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...analogies between these two great cases, analogies that do not appear in the trial records, but which are no less certain. In the Dreyfus case, the "honor" of the French army was involved, and before the trial was over, the prosecution had found it necessary to commit forgery and withhold evidence in order to save that "honor". In the present case, the dignity of Massachusetts courts is involved, and this dignity has made it necessary for the court to refuse motions for a new trial when there exists more than a reasonable doubt in the minds of many...
...Umpire. It is the Umpire's function to settle disputes, to give or withhold credit for this or that answer. The Umpire is omnipotent and is empowered to banish people from the house, if necessary...
Spending Money. "It is significant that the Congress has not granted the total amount requested in any single budget. It is pleasurable and easy to give. It is difficult to withhold. If the Treasury vaults were thrown open and its accumulated capital drawn upon until not a dollar were left, even then would we not be able to satisfy the demands that probably would be made from various groups and from various localities. And who will say that these demands may not "have justification? Projects that eventually will be resolved into completed works, purposes and policies that in time...
...American foreign policy is determined not by him [the President] and two-thirds of the Senate but by one-third of the Senate, which will withhold its consent. . . . It is the fact that one-third may veto and go unscathed?unless perchance the issue should be a stupendous one?that directly invites the Senate to substitute its anfractuosities for the executive's desires...
...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 of their decisions is in reality menacing the stability of justice in that state...