Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week 61 South Carolina National Guardsmen marched up to the State Office Building in Columbia, trained machine guns on its entrance. Since taking office in January, 38-year-old Governor Johnston had been trying to make good his campaign promises by attempting to withhold Chief Commissioner Sawyer's salary, appointing new members to the Commission, trying to discharge old ones. Each time he had been balked by statutes and injunctions. "A state of rebellion," he now proclaimed, "exists in the Highway Department...
...Atlantic City convention, demanded a seat in the name of his rumpsters. Mr. Green confidently put the question to a viva voce vote, announced that Mr. McDonough had been counted out. "NO!" the convention roared back at startled Mr. Green. The roll-call vote on a proposal to withhold action on Mr. McDonough's ouster until a compromise might be settled this week was 18,092½ -to-10,602, the worst reverse the Federation's electorate has given President Green since he took office eleven years ago. Few days later, however, President Green happily announced that...
...right paw, also well placed, nipped out from the Foreign Office a statement that Emperor Power of Trinity was being advised by the British Government to "withhold" whatever concession or concessions he may have granted. Exclaimed His Majesty: "Surely the British Government cannot interfere in a concession granted to the United States! . . . I gave the concession to Standard Oil." By this time Fat Chaps had arrived in French Somaliland and realized that he had embarrassed London by announcing in Addis Ababa that some of his backers are British. Said Promoter Rickett, changing his tune, "The capital of the African Development...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withhold...
Frank Merriam is a moon-faced lowan who crept into Sacramento as Lieutenant Governor in 1930, succeeded to the Governorship when "Sunny Jim" Rolph died last year and black-jacked California's influential Republicans into nominating him against Sinclair by threatening to withhold State troops from the San Francisco strike last summer. He is an arch political trimmer, paying harmless lip service to the Townsend Plan and at the same time complaining to his capitalist supporters that he is surrounded by fanatics. But even Frank Merriam could not trim the fact that California desperately needed revenue...