Word: withholds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adopt a laissez-faire attitude in the question, and to withhold support of the League is to provide the muddy streams of graft with further substance. Already the League has organized itself in good shape under responsible leadership; economy itself is a non-partisan issue. In supporting the League students will be give further strength to a sound movement that merits their cooperation...
What did Boss Koenig get? Despite denials, even Republicans were sure that Tammany had been gotten to promise to withhold enough votes from Governor Roosevelt in the national election to let New York go for Herbert Hoover...
...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...