Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solution would be for the Phi Beta Kappa Society to withhold its elections until more evidence of a man's worth is available. If, for instance, the Junior eight were selected at the end of the third year rather than at the beginning, and all others at the same time of graduation, judgments would be more sure. Then the honor would be awarded after men have shown how well they can relate and make use of the facts they have gained from their courses and tutorial work and thus be more representatives...
...registering treaty engagements in order that they may be known by the whole world. Almost 3000 treaties have been registered in the last few years, some of them by states not members of the League of Nations. The United States communicates its treaties but does not register them. We withhold our support of the only method practicable of banishing secret engagements. When a year ago thirty American professors of international law and international relations suggested that our treaties should be registered in Geneva, the Department of State replied that it would be "inappropriate." That is precisely the kind of question...
...Supreme Court declares to be binding upon all citizens, whether native-born or naturalized. I have not promised, expressly or tacitly, to accept an act of Congress as the final interpretation of the will of God, and I will not do so. In my allegiance to my country I withhold nothing, not even my life. But I cannot give my conscience. That belongs to God. . . ." This petition, containing many a ''whereas," is to be signed by as many people as possible and sent off to Congress. Copies will also be run off to be distributed at public gatherings...
...legislative pair is a gentleman's agreement between two members, who if present would vote on opposite sides, to withhold their votes if one or the other is absent. A and B are paired. A is absent. B will not vote. But C, on B's side, is also absent but unpaired. B arranges to transfer his pair with A to C and then is free to vote, while the uncast votes of A and C cancel themselves out in the total...
...brought to trial, and the gang's efforts to prevent the Leeds family from testifying takes the form of physical coercion. When the father refuses to be bribed into silence, his child is held hostage. To save the life of the young boy the entire family decide to withhold its knowledge of the killing, that is, all but the inordinately chauvinitsic grandfather, relic of Bull Run, who refuses to be intimidated by a "bunch of yellow-bellied foreigners". At the climax the child is rescued, and the Civil War veteran gives the testimony that sends the killer to the chair...