Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Edgar Borah was one of the few liberals of the Republican Party who did not abandon the sinking political ship of William Howard Taft and bolt the party. Last month Senator Borah frightened conservative Republicans of Taft's native State by announcing that he was going to run in Ohio primaries to prevent the naming of a favorite son. who would be used to deliver Ohio's convention vote to a boss-picked, Old-Guard candidate. Last week Ohio Republicans scurried about to find a rival candidate to prevent the Ohio delegation from going to the Idahoan...
...open the way to a new Eastern Locarno far quicker than a dual pact with Soviet Russia, which would have the double effect of alienating the Little Entente as well as Germany and Poland. If the Left can come to some agreement with the Right on this issue and abandon the policy of "einkreisung" which has been such a point of friction between the two countries, it is quite possible that France, England and Germany may yet come to some permanent understanding...
...Cohan's support is pleasing throughout, although perhaps the three leading women enunciate a little too clearly and speak a little too earnestly, in contrast with the star's jolly abandon. But Joseph Leggitt, acted by Charles D. Brown, deserves a palm along with his colleague. Calvin's alter ago in the play, he portrays to perfection all a friend's loyalty, banter, conniving, assistance, and well-intended blunders...
Twenty million dollars was the minimum goal first set for the Tercentenary Fund. Then someone thought of the Depression and it was decided to abandon the previously publicized goal and accept all and any contributions. To date over two million dollars has been pledged...
...biography. Moore told Charles Morgan that he wanted his biography to be, not a "tombstone in two volumes," but "a true novel." Mr. Morgan undertook this task, but the withholding from him of an extensive correspondence which Moore had deemed essential for the work, has caused him to abandon his attempt. The "Epitaph on George Moore" contains his explanation and "a distillation" of the materials he had gathered for the work. It is an exceedingly valuable distillation...