Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canada, the United States, Mexico and Peru as the principal producers of silver" not to dump the white metal on the world market for the next four years. Sales of surplus silver by the holding nations would be reduced to about the same extent that the producers agree to withhold silver from the world market by purchasing it for their treasury reserves of coin or bullion...
...State Government, Alfred Emanuel Smith, loudly declared that such a budget was the most crying governmental need today.) New Jersey's bill created the job of State Fiscal Commissioner, to be appointed by the Governor and solely responsible to him. The Commissioner was authorized to suspend or withhold appropriations, reduce personnel, save much money. The Legislature was still to fix the maximum appropriation but the Governor was to control its minimum spending. Senator Dryden Kuser, the measure's sponsor, hurried across to the Assembly chamber to speed it through. The legislative wags put a cup of ice water...
Other provisions in one bill or the other: 1) Federal Reserve banks are to withhold credit from member banks which use it for stockmarket speculation; 2) savings and Morris Plan banks are to be admitted to the Reserve system; 3) national bank directorates are to be limited to 25; 4) interest on demand deposits is to cease; 5) officers may not borrow from their own banks...
...Comptroller of the Currency, as well as counsel for the New York Clearing House, requested the Department of Justice, at the time the facts were transmitted to me, to withhold action until the bank's affairs could, if possible, be straightened out. This request was acceded to by the Department of Justice. I acted within 24 hours after the restriction upon my proceedings was removed...
...unfortunate that the cost will withhold these advantages from those who could make most use of them. True, there will be limited scholarships for able students who are financially dependent, but the limitation must necessarily be great. Regardless of class, the man without support of any kind, whose search for a position has been fruitless, and whose mind becomes consequently ever more bitter and stale is the most pressing problem of any depression. The present step of the Business School has many recommendations, but it can claim small virtue as an altruistic relief measure...