Word: refrained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brooklyn and Boston, Princeton and Montclair heard the polished periods of Newton Diehl Baker. His refrain: "The Hawley-Smoot tariff was conceived in sin and born in iniquity." He charged that with this law the Republicans declared economic war on the rest of the world...
...attack begins. The attackers fire a volley from behind trees, then throw away their guns and rush the defenders with lances. If the assault is successful, slaughter is indiscriminate-except for nubile girls, who are spared if they refrain from fighting...
World & Worst. Except for the intensity of his feeling there was little politically new in the President's Cleveland address. His refrain about the Depression: "Let no man say it could not have been worse." The President fought back the Democratic charge that the U. S. and its stock speculations were responsible for the 1929 crash, stuck doggedly to his claim that worldwide forces were to blame. He insisted Governor Roosevelt* had wilfully ignored such factors as ''the greatest war in history . . . the killing or incapacitating of 40,000,000 of the best youth of the earth...
...Dexterity" Obviously both U. S. farmers and U. S. manufacturers will lose by the new deal between Mother Britain and Daughter Canada, a deal typical of the eleven other Ottawa deals. Last week U. S. Department of Commerce experts were instructed to refrain from guessing how big this loss will be. The Department's able Dr. Julius Klein stressed the "dexterity"with which U. S. manufacturers have often surmounted foreign tariff barriers by developing new products. Preliminary estimates by U. S. economists in London were that about $200,000,000 worth of U. S. exports will come within...
...damage suit and an injunction to refrain the Harvard Cooperative Laundry from using names and methods employed by the Students Laundry, has been filed by the latter organization. The case was heard yesterday, and was taken under advisement by the judge. A verdict will be given in two or three days...