Word: withholds
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Depression: "The world economic crisis is merely the last and worst of the periodic crises inevitable under the capitalist system, whose production invariably outruns the demand every ten years or so because the capitalist producers withhold the profits from the working population and the gradual accumulation of this mass of profit becomes, so to speak, 'frozen' at the end of each period?or is exported?whereas under the Socialist system every cent of 'profit' is returned to the workers, not only in the form of wages but in material and cultural construction. Thus in the Socialist state?in Soviet Russia?...
...White House and the Senate continued to tussle last week over confidential papers relative to the negotiation of the London Naval Treaty. Secretary of State Stimson, on President Hoover's order, continued to withhold the documents from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the ground that their publication might embarrass foreign governments (TIME. June...
...charitable course for the authorities to withhold full measure of punishment and condemnation until the students as a community once more see things in the same light as themselves. How they will attain, this enlightenment remains to be discovered. ... A man who is convicted by the dean's office of cheating and leaves college under the stigma of that hideous word takes on an aspect of moral guilt which his companions ... do not of their own accord inflict. . . . Certainly a man's honor in the world is bitterly lost...
...valid as long ago as 1904. (South Dakota v. North Carolina, 192 U. S. 286.) The U. S. held some of the defaulted bonds in the Indian Trust Fund, but was able to secure payment by virtue of an act of Congress authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to withhold from moneys which the U. S. might owe any defaulting State sufficient amounts to pay the principal and interest of the bonds (U. S. Code Title...
...lobbyist, now Senator from Pennsylvania, had startled his comrades-in-arms with a display of tariff chivalry. A wool yarn manufacturer himself, he announced on the vote (35-to-29) which increased the duty on this commodity: "I am interested in the industry sheltered under this paragraph. Therefore I withhold my vote." Skeptical observers wondered what he would have done had the vote been closer...