Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...review of the progress of U.S. foreign relations in a year when U.S. policy-and the hopes of lasting peace itself-emerged from the shadows of confusions and doubts. Grave difficulties, he said, had arisen at the very outset of efforts to make a peace, "but we refused to abandon the principles for which our country stands. And we served notice that we would not retreat to a policy of isolation...
Larreta. An interesting-and heartening-conflict of views on "sovereignty" v. "intervention" arose between Uruguay's Foreign Minister Eduardo Rodriguez Larreta and Sumner Welles, former U.S. Under Secretary of State. It was Larreta who urged that small nations, in the interests of a democratic Pan-American community, abandon their fears of U.S. intervention, and Welles who counseled restraint in interfering with the internal affairs of small nations. Said Larreta...
Caniff was the first cartoonist who ever left Joe Patterson, though not the first to abandon his brain children.* Patterson and Caniff never spoke or met, after Caniff joined Field. (In Patterson's Daily News, and in most of the other 310 papers that print Terry, the strip was being drawn last week by George Wunder. Wunder, like Caniff-whom he has never met-is a left-handed graduate of the A.P. Judging by his first week, his drawing was a reasonable facsimile of Caniff's, but his dialogue was a long way below...
Casting and technical difficulties have forced the Dramatic Club to abandon its plans for producing Thomas Wolfe's "Mannerhouse," according to Paul S. Burggraf '48, H.D.C. President, who also said yesterday that the choice of an alternate spring play will be announced shortly...
With only 32 persons present at the seven House forums held last week, the Constitution Committee was forced to abandon its plan of following the straw vote dictates of the College on controversial issues of Council makeup. With so few undergraduates present, Weld asserted, the votes meant next to nothing. "Under the circumstances," he said, "we have decided to go ahead and put out the best constitution the Committee can put out independently...