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...Centaur's crew but de Bernis saves Priscilla and Major Sands by pretending she is his wife, Sands her brother. De Bernis, an old associate of Tom Leach's, was on his way to tell him of a plate fleet soon to sail for Spain. To withhold Leach from treachery, he withholds all information as to whence the fleet will sail, insists that Leach careen the Black Swan on a certain island's beach and scrape her bottom clean for the fast fight to come. On the island trouble brews. Leach makes goat's eyes...
...Farm Board made its decision on the recommendation of "cotton cooperatives, leading Southern Bankers and leaders in the textile trade." But the' decision did not please Southern Senators. Georgia's George and South Carolina's Smith clamored for the Board to withhold its sale "for another year at least...
...Lindbergh "properly identified" the person or persons to whom he gave the $50,000 was thus officially explained: "At the time the baby was kidnapped a ransom note demanding $50,000 was left in the nursery. For obvious reasons it was necessary to withhold all information concerning this ransom note. A means was offered in the ransom note of positive identification of the kidnappers thereafter. Subsequent notes received were identified by this means and at the time that the ransom was paid over the kidnappers used this same means to positively identify themselves as the ones who had carried...
...solution would be for the Phi Beta Kappa Society to withhold its elections until more evidence of a man's worth is available. If, for instance, the Junior eight were selected at the end of the third year rather than at the beginning, and all others at the same time of graduation, judgments would be more sure. Then the honor would be awarded after men have shown how well they can relate and make use of the facts they have gained from their courses and tutorial work and thus be more representatives...
...registering treaty engagements in order that they may be known by the whole world. Almost 3000 treaties have been registered in the last few years, some of them by states not members of the League of Nations. The United States communicates its treaties but does not register them. We withhold our support of the only method practicable of banishing secret engagements. When a year ago thirty American professors of international law and international relations suggested that our treaties should be registered in Geneva, the Department of State replied that it would be "inappropriate." That is precisely the kind of question...