Word: withholding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Centaur's crew but de Bernis saves Priscilla and Major Sands by pretending she is his wife, Sands her brother. De Bernis, an old associate of Tom Leach's, was on his way to tell him of a plate fleet soon to sail for Spain. To withhold Leach from treachery, he withholds all information as to whence the fleet will sail, insists that Leach careen the Black Swan on a certain island's beach and scrape her bottom clean for the fast fight to come. On the island trouble brews. Leach makes goat's eyes...
...Farm Board made its decision on the recommendation of "cotton cooperatives, leading Southern Bankers and leaders in the textile trade." But the' decision did not please Southern Senators. Georgia's George and South Carolina's Smith clamored for the Board to withhold its sale "for another year at least...
...Lindbergh "properly identified" the person or persons to whom he gave the $50,000 was thus officially explained: "At the time the baby was kidnapped a ransom note demanding $50,000 was left in the nursery. For obvious reasons it was necessary to withhold all information concerning this ransom note. A means was offered in the ransom note of positive identification of the kidnappers thereafter. Subsequent notes received were identified by this means and at the time that the ransom was paid over the kidnappers used this same means to positively identify themselves as the ones who had carried...