Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sovereignty of the State shall be no more. The new President has set up a Boston Tea Party of his own by which he will reach out into the sovereign States, draw out the tax resources, and then withhold from the States their proportion of this fund if they insist on exercising the right of a State...
Thus the League Council is accurately informed what will happen should they give the Saar now to Germany. To withhold it, many Geneva statesmen feared, would touch off a Nazi invasion to seize the Saar. Even the supremely legal mind of Sir John Simon was not attracted, as it normally would have been, by the Treaty of Versailles' proviso that the Saar may be split or diced up into as many parts as the Council pleases, each part being given a different status, corresponding to the local vote. From a legal standpoint the League seemed duty-bound to give...
Albert G. Burns of Oakland, Calif, was re-elected president of the Congress. It was Mr. Burns who last year revealed that a Clevelander named Antonio Longoria had invented a death-ray which killed rabbits, dogs & cats instantly (TIME, July 23). President Burns said that Inventor Longoria would withhold his secret until invasion threatened...
...entitled to discuss and weigh the physical fitness of our public servants as well as their morals, patriotism and statesmanship? If not, then...we can safely prophesy that this generation will not pass away before a despot sits in the White House and we can righteously withhold our pity from the milksops, nincompoops and sycophants, who then make up the population, as unworthy of any other fate than to bear the cruel hand of oppression...
...opportunity to show its mettle. At last, after decades of shilly-shallying on unimportant artificial issues, there would be a chance for the voter to express his opinion definitely on an inclusive and yet clear-cut issue. He could support or attack the New Deal, he could give or withhold his approval of the Democratic philosophy of government, as evidenced by the Roosevelt administration. That hope has been blasted. There will be little such rational voting today...