Word: withholding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Accordingly, in order to keep the vote from being practically unanimous, for the choice of Joe Forecast in those Open Spaces where his word is law, I will withhold my prediction until Tuesday morning. I aim only to predict, not to influence public opinion. Not that I couldn't influence it, if I chose, and occasionally have...
...gladdest of all was Sir Henri. He looked long and lovingly on Amsterdam. Then he returned to the Thames-side with a dual satisfaction. In addition to his auction room success he had persuaded the Six family to withhold a series of ancestral oils from public sale. He, Sir Henry, would dispose of them advantageously, to the credit of Holland, the Sixes, the artists...
Since Argentines fear that the U. S. tariff on corn and flaxseed is about to be raised, with the inevitable effect of reducing Argentine exports of those staples, it is understood that President Irigoyen intends to withhold Argentine ratification of the Kellogg Peace Pact, in hopes of convincing the Coolidge Administration that the tariff on corn and flaxseed really should not be raised...
...Great Britain" Sir John Simon prepared to sail at once for India, there to continue the labors of his "Indian Statutory Commission" (TIME, Jan. 30 et seq.). Sir John, as Chairman of the Commission, is directing a gigantic research into whether it is advisable for Parliament to grant or withhold a greater measure of Indian self government...
...Bonds, $233,000 being for a one-third interest in Fall's ranch, for which Sinclair never took a receipt. The Government was prepared to show that the Fall ranch was worth only $70,000 by its owner's sworn statement. But the Government thought best to withhold this evidence until its rebuttal. There were other matters which the Government would have liked to introduce but could not, notably the U. S. Supreme Court's unanimous verdict in a civil suit, that Sinclair's lease was "shot through with corruption," and that Fall was "a faithless...