Word: moratorium
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...flood of letters protesting your selection will come to you, sent by D.A.R.'s, fearful divines, sabled, twittering, triple-chinned dowagers, the ostrich-minded city council of Cambridge, Mass., and similar groups of in-the-closet-and-under-the-bed-peepers who believe that enforced ignorance and a moratorium on thinking is "Americanism...
...Therefore the Harvard Student Union protests the Administration's request for a moral embargo imposed against the Soviet Union, and opposes the proposed loan to Finland of $70,000,000 to the Finnish government and the proposed moratorium on Finnish war debts...
...days later-three days before his deadline-he rose before the Interparliamentarians and, with a wild look in his eye, proposed a 30-day moratorium during which Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy would talk things over; if the four powers failed, said Ham Fish, the problem should be refered to the Kings of Norway and of the Belgians and the President of Switzerland...
...road's run-down Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, unused for 15 years, for $2,000,000. Last November the Interstate Commerce Commission allowed Dan Willard to cut his fixed charges $11,000,000 a year by persuading the bondholders to accept an eight-year moratorium on interest payments. Last week Dan Willard personally appeared before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee to ask that Congress spare him the "personal disgrace" of a B. & O. bankruptcy by passing the Chandler Bill...
...hotelman, realtor, world's No. 1 streetcar-card adman, whose company's posters are said to be seen by 1,200,000,000 people per month; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1933, Barren Collier, always a big-time speculator, announced he was broke, declared a moratorium, became the first U. S. tycoon to take advantage of the amendment to the bankruptcy law which President Hoover signed day before he left office...