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...cannot refrain from expressing to you my satisfaction at the eminently fair and understanding manner in which the naval building program was presented to your readers in your issue of Feb. 20, 1928. (Slight errors in the biographical paragraph concerning Admiral Hughes are of course of no consequence...
...port facilities, had not asked the State Department to announce its attitude. The objection was impressive, since it put the State Department in the role of a defender of citizens' safe-deposit boxes. The objection was effective. The Chase National notified the State Department that it would "gladly refrain" from carrying out its Soviet depositor's instructions...
...will not put an adversary to his proof in respect to facts whose existence my client admits. I will refrain from merely formal or technical objection to the admission of evidence...
...This attitude is shameless hypocrisy. Standard has proof that Shell did everything in its power for seven months in 1926 to obtain a monopoly for the sale of Russian oil. Shell failed. Shell invited all oil interests to refrain from selling Russian oil. Standard of N. Y. refused...
Philip M. Tucker, the Boston banker who last fortnight started and then obediently stopped a chain-letter boom for the Coolidge renomination (TIME, Dec. 5), could not refrain from say- ing: "The response to the petition sent out by me was like the bursting of a dam which held back the expression of the people looking for some outlet to show their faith in Calvin Coolidge...