Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chance the other 10,000,000 would bring in more money. At $30 per bale this was equivalent to plowing $150,000,000 in good money back into the ground. As an inducement Chairman Stone promised that, if ten major cotton States agreed to the plan, the Board would withhold from the market its own 1.300,000 bales and get its co-operatives to withhold their 2,000,000 bales, making a total reduction of 8,000,000 bales in the 1931 market. To be effective, Mr. Stone warned, the plow-under must be complete by Sept...
...plan now, according to Clark, is to withhold the call for 150-pound candidates until the House teams have completed their personnel. This, the authorities feel, will not conflict with House athletics to any appreciable extent...
Suit Won. By Mrs. Dorothy Russell Calvit, daughter of the late Actress Lillian Russell, who married the late Ambassador to Spain Alexander Pollock Moore: to obtain a re-accounting of her mother's estate and to withhold distribution of the Ambassador's $600,000 estate. Charge (upheld in Pittsburgh Orphans' Court): that Ambassador Moore had "fraudulently acquired assets of his wife's estate while acting as executor thereof." Mrs. Calvit's claim to one-half the Moore estate, under an alleged pre-nuptial agreement between her mother and stepfather, will be adjudged after the estate has been accounted...
...Stanford Universities desire to play at the Harvard Stadium on November 28, 1931. The action as taken by the Boston College Alumni is both sportsman-like and commendable and objection by them to the holding of the game having been withdrawn I know of no reason why I should withhold approval. You are at liberty to inform President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard and the presidents of Dartmouth and Stanford universities as to the decision arrived at. Respectfully yours, James M. Curley...
...Author. Publishers Farrar & Rinehart stoutly withhold the real name of "A. Riposte," admit the author may reveal him (or her) self later. Whoever the author may be, he (or she) is obviously a good friend to Novelist Hugh Seymour Walpole (pilloried in Cakes and Ale as "Alroy Kear"), obviously has been at pains to ferret out Maugham's career, obviously has a grudge against Maugham. Mindful of possible libel action. "Riposte" steers clear of any reference to Maugham's effeminate men friends (TIME, Oct. 6). Says Publisher John Farrar: "English publishers are cabling violently. ... I feel as though...