Word: canceled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such matters were grist for the congressional mill, but they hardly stacked up as a solid campaign"But none of these mistakes adds up to scandal, or even superficially documents such wild charges as Kefauver's that the President had to cancel the Dixon-Yates contract because it was be coming more scandalous, more smelly, all the time . . . When Memphis, in June 1955, announced it had arranged to build its own power plant at the expense of local basic points he taxpayers, made the in 1952 President...
...from the site of the proposed Dixon-Yates plant. The appropriation will be nullified if, within 90 days, Memphis makes a definite commitment to build its own steam plant. If Memphis does indeed build its own plant, the proposed Dixon-Yates plant will be unnecessary, and the U.S. will cancel its contract with Dixon-Yates...
Peter B. Barlow '58 and Robert D. Storey '58, leaders of the group, refused to comment on why they had cancelled the excursion, but one member of the group explained that the planners had decided to cancel the trip to avoid "ill feelings" after pressure from the Jubilee Committee...
...even exciting. From "The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant," you may know the plot A middle-aged baseball fan sells his soul to the devil in order to become a young sports hero and rescues the Washington Senators from their perennial losses. The fan reserve the right to cancel the bargain on one particular midnight in the fall. From there on, it is a contest between the devil, a Mr. Applegate, and the retreaded slugger. Having pushed out a host of good songs in the first act, Ross and Adler go home about half an hour before the musical...
...strike" of 900,000 Catholic pupils throughout the country. Theo Lefevre, president of the Social Christian (Catholic) Party, next called for a "peaceful and dignified" mass demonstration in the capital at week's end. Alarmed, Socialist Premier Achille van Acker formally banned the demonstration, ordered the railroads to cancel 100 special trains chartered to bring Catholics to the capital. The Catholics simply turned to ordinary trains, cars, buses, or took off on foot, and for a traffic-clogging 24 hours streamed into Brussels by the thousands. On schedule, they converged 100,000 strong for the demonstration...