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...very dirty weather, some pirates pushed us on the rocks and boarded us, disguised as 'national interest men.'" The need for state control of industry he could see, he said, but "It's going altogether too far when . . . this company has earned ?3,170,000, to withhold the whole of its earnings...
...Withhold Indian war funds...
...When an enemy submarine is sunk, the British Admiralty usually delays announcement of it, to withhold information and increase worry for the German High Command. Last week the Admiralty departed from this custom, announced the sinking in one day of two U-boats by one British destroyer. Emphasized-to encourage neutrals-was the fact that these U-boats had attacked a convoy off Ireland. Additional fact: they sank at least one of the convoyed ships (the Canadian Beaverburn). And another ship, the Chagres, was lost to a mine...
...When my men discover the approach of a patrol party, they withhold action until they hear the marauders encounter our barbed-wire entanglements running down the slopes on all sides...
...general, the Corporation defended the wisdom of retaining the power to withhold permission for use of the buildings as "essential and proper." Pointing out that refusal will be rare, the Corporation concludes, ". . . attention is again called to the fact that Harvard has at no time adopted the policy of refusing permission to a speaker because of his party affiliations or his political views...