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Last week the Adventists announced at they had signed an agreement with the United Auto Workers (CIO). Adventist auto workers agreed to contribute the monetary equivalent of union dues to a sick-benefit or some other workmen's benevolent fund, and to refrain from backing either side in the event of a strike. In return, they will receive from the union a card exempting them from all dues, meetings and other union activities in any of the U.A.W.'s 900 locals...
...possible for you, for any reason, to keep Mr. Wallace [then Secretary of Commerce] . . . from speaking on foreign affairs ... if it is not completely clear in your own mind that Mr. Wallace should be asked to refrain from criticizing the foreign policy of the United States while he is a member of your Cabinet, I must ask you to accept my resignation...
...long statement in a study of syndicalism asks future readers to refrain from marginal notes because they prove distracting. The advice is written in indelible...
Then 75 White House news photographers bobbed up on the south grounds and Harry Truman went out to see what it was all about. They gave him a movie camera and a still camera. He promptly took pictures of them, turned on them their own refrain: "Just one more, please...
...This is regrettable. But what is the alternative? Refrain from establishing an international government and thereby deprive ourselves of a desperately needed means of saving peace and democracy? That is too high a price to pay for Russia's formal, obstructionist membership...