Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rightly suggests that the absence of money compels hundreds of brilliant students to abandon study while the possession of money enables numerous inferior students to decorate colleges and universities...
...Disappointment after disappointment would seem to have weakened the League of Nations," went on Mr. Eden, "but its foundations remain. Our efforts may be checked but we are not beaten! . . . What is essential is that we should never abandon our ideals! It is for you and for all of us to champion them...
...clearly indicated in the President's memorable Chicago speech that he wishes to abandon isolationism. "America hates war. America hopes for peace. Therefore America actively engages in the search for peace." And recently the trend to cooperation has been reenforced by several Administration spokesmen, notably Secretary Woodring...
Smarting, Governor La Toilette declared that the decision outlawed State help to any private corporation. Mr. Dammann said he would withhold a $50,000 annual appropriation to the Wisconsin State Historical Society and $150,000 in annual grants to county fairs. Announcing that he would abandon not only WDA but his plans for a similar Wisconsin Agricultural Authority to encourage dairying cooperatives, the disappointed Governor snapped: "If I understand this decision correctly, it means that Government by bureaucracy has become mandatory, displacing all so-called sovereign power...
...position and his Treasury's prospects, President Cardenas put the next move squarely up to the 15 U. S companies. He decreed that the $7,000,000 wage increase should go into effect. While Ambassador Daniels muttered, the U. S. companies pondered whether they really would abandon their $175,000,000 Mexican investment...