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...improve Chefoo's police force, to push his superb street paving program and to encourage his new Institute of Silk Culture. Liu, frankly a bandit who worked up into the roles of petty statesman and local philanthropist, had only one real fault during the summer. He did withhold (steal) all of Chefoo's local revenues from Governor Han of Shantung...
...dismay valiant Tiyo; so the snakes became people again and Tiyo took his bride back to his tribe on the mesa. But all of their offspring were snakes. The Hopi drove the snake children into the desert. They returned to the underworld. The underworldlings, angered, persuaded the gods to withhold rain from the Hopi. Year after year corn withered on its stalk. Finally the Hopi sent out scouts to gather all the snakes they could find. They washed the snakes, made them the centre of a religious ritual and sent them away. The grateful snakes told their fellows, who asked...
...execute the strike. He would organize and head it-at $5 per day, to be paid by a 50? levy on all members. A radical exhibitionist who claims to be "as poor as the rest of you farmers," Mr. Reno began passing out pledge cards wherein husbandmen agreed to withhold their goods until prices reach a level above the cost of production. First focus of the Holiday Association's activity was Sioux City where a strike began fortnight ago. More than 2,000 farmers picketed the seven highways into town. Produce trucks were turned back by logs and cables...
Last week in a more sweeping order the Commission ordered seven other Wisconsin utilities to withhold dividend payments until it could be learned by the Commission (which hires experts, charges their fees to the companies investigated) whether the dividends were being earned or paid at the expense of capital. The seven estopped companies...
...grounds that it was a corporation, hence ineligible under a rule passed in 1929. Upon the refusal. Rev. Clarence Elmer Huff, president of Farmers National, asked Secretary of Agriculture Hyde to cancel the Board of Trade's license as a futures market. Secretary Hyde said he would withhold expression until after the Updike case was settled. Angry at the way it was settled, George Sparks Milnor, general manager of Farmers National, last week said the Government would be urged to revoke the Board's license at once. The Board's defense will be heard next week...