Word: relinquish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What he was to do with the Batory, one of the few tenable Polish territories left in the world, was a question which his fleeing Government had no time to answer. Borkowski waited-until finally orders came from the New York Consulate. He was to relinquish his command to Chief Officer Franciszek Szudzinski and go by train to Halifax. The liner was to sail immediately for the same city under her new captain...
...passing from French to Spanish hands ended a long dispute. Bank of France vaults having held it for years, the Spanish Republican Government and Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Government fought over its ownership during the Civil War. When the war ended, the French were reluctant to relinquish the gold until Spain paid for the board and lodging of some 400,000 refugees quartered in France. Last week the Generalissimo won the argument...
...annual meeting of The Harvard Crimson is to be held this afternoon at 4 o'clock, at which time the out-going officers of the 1939 Board will relinquish their posts to the officers-elect of the incoming 1940 Board. President, Cleveland Amory, Managing Editor Caleb Foote, Business Manager J. Francis Dammann, Jr., Editorial Chairman Ellsworth S. Grant, Executive Editor John T. McCutcheon, Jr. and Photographic Chairman Roger W. Loewl will read reports of the activities of their respective departments in the 1938-1939 period...
Under the new system, inaugurated this year, the number of advisers was reduced to sixty and these are being reimbursed for their services and can be called upon to give constructive aid or relinquish their positions to those...
...heart case to a specialist was forbidden to consult personally with the specialist and was forced to communicate with him through the mails. A G. H. A. doctor called to an acute appendicitis case at midnight found all the hospitals in Washington barred to him, was forced to relinquish the operation to another surgeon...