Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reno program is for John Farmer to withhold his products from market until scarcity raises farm prices; to buy nothing unnecessary, to pay no debts or taxes, to fight evictions. Because the Federal farm program-based on 1909-14 price parities between industrial and farm products- has not provided prices as high as his, because farmers are still losing their homes in spite of the Farm Credit Administration, at Shenandoah, Iowa Milo Reno was enthusiastically cheered when he described the Agricultural Adjustment Act as "diabolical." He demanded the resignation of Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace. "Wallace's education...
...claimant before paying out any claim. It was adroitly sidestepped by having cotton bounty checks made out to the joint account of debtor farmers and the Governor of the Farm Credit Administration. No farmer could cash his check without the consent of Governor Morgenthau. Governor Morgenthau promised to withhold only about $10,000,000 in payments from those farmers in whose debts private lenders held an interest through Federal Land and Intermediate Credit Banks. Another ''first" last week was a stop-order issued by the Federal Trade Commission under the new Securities Act. Last month the Speculative Investment...
...recovered against the United States or other claim duly allowed by legal authority shall be presented to the Secretary of the Treasury for payment and the plaintiff or claimant therein shall be indebted to the United States in any manner, it shall be the duty of the Secretary to withhold payment of an amount of such judgment or claim equal to the debt thus due to the United States. . . - Act of March...
...Princeton's Professor (now President) Harold Willis Dodds, whom Governor Moore had invited to survey the State Government (TIME, July 3). By the terms of the Princeton Plan, the Fiscal Commissioner was to be a dictator of the State's finances, with power to suspend or withhold appropriations, reduce personnel. Last week Governor Moore, still true to the Princeton Plan, selected John Colt, 43, able Princeton banker and onetime assistant professor of politics at the university, to fill the null position. Fiscal Commissioner Colt, dapper, popular, brainy, is a Republican. His appointment gave evidence that Democratic Governor Moore...
...California passed a bill fixing the death penalty or life imprisonment for kidnappers who harm their victims.* In Albany, Governor Lehman urged New York's Legislature to make kidnapping punishable by death unless the victim is returned before trial; to make it a felony to pay ransom or withhold information about a kidnapping case...