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  • On the basis of these promises, the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and the leaders of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights agreed to a moratorium on all demonstrations.†   (source)
  • I declare, effective at this moment, a moratorium on the payment of all debts, rents, taxes, interest, mortgages, insurance claims, and premiums, and all and any other financial obligations for the duration of the emergency.†   (source)
  • It was October is, Moratorium Day, when the United States reverberated with the chants and pleadings of those discontented with the war.†   (source)
  • A result and impetus of all this activity became the Chicano Moratorium Against the War.†   (source)
  • THE MORATORIUM ON BRAINS "Where have you been all this time?"†   (source)
  • It was understood that the moratorium was for five years!†   (source)
  • How many loans have you got from us and how many extensions, suspensions and moratoriums?†   (source)
  • But, right now you can't make up for the Chicano Moratorium, for Miguel Robles and all the others who've suffered because of this society.†   (source)
  • At age 16, I participated in the Chicano Moratorium Against the Vietnam War — the so-called East L.A. riot.†   (source)
  • It has derailed and, whenever possible, destroyed the unity which emerged out of the Watts Rebellion, out of the Chicano Moratorium, out of the Wounded Knee protests.†   (source)
  • From the age of 13 on, I ended up in cells like those of the San Gabriel jail house — places like Pomona, Temple City, East L.A., Monterey Park, East Lake's juvenile detention hall and the L.A. county jail system following the Moratorium.†   (source)
  • As soon as the "Martha moratorium" was lifted, the Camp would get dozens of freaks rushed in, ruining our temporarily placid prison lives.†   (source)
  • He is intrigued by this correlation but, like the "Moratorium" author, fails to see the direction in which the correlation runs.†   (source)
  • Well, your friends beat mine on that moratorium business, but mine beat yours on Rearden Metal-and I'm not forgetting it.†   (source)
  • What was wrong about that moratorium?†   (source)
  • Because you spent ten thousand dollars pouring liquor into people you hoped would prevent the directive about the bond moratorium!†   (source)
  • Don't you know what they can do to us through this Railroad Pool, or through the Unification Board, or through the moratorium on our bonds?†   (source)
  • I had to grant the unions' demands to cut down the trains-and the moratorium on bonds was the only way I could do it, so that's why Wesley gave it to me, for the workers, not for myself.†   (source)
  • To compensate the railroads of the country for the extra costs involved and "to cushion the process of readjustment," a moratorium on payments of interest and principal on all railroad bonds-secured and unsecured, convertible and non-convertible-was declared for a period of five years.†   (source)
  • The moratorium on brains.†   (source)
  • You deserved every penny of that stock, and in the days of your father I would have refunded every penny of your profit-but under your brother's management, Taggart Transcontinental has taken its share of the looting, it has made profits by force, by means of government favors, subsidies, moratoriums, directives.†   (source)
  • I had a pretty good idea about what Ted thought about the moratorium, but I did not realize that I would be watching the greatest show on earth in Ted's living room.†   (source)
  • I wanted desperately to watch the news that night, to see how the Washington march went, and to see the reaction of people around the country to the moratorium itself.†   (source)
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