Word: relinquish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democratic National Committee but also of the Democratic State Committee in New York. To President Roosevelt this seems like too many political jobs for his P. M. G. Last winter when the President was gently shaking government officials out of their party jobs, Jim Farley promised to relinquish his State post. Last week he blandly announced: ". . . Governor Lehman indicated a desire that I stay as chairman, and I am happy to do so, and do what I can to aid the party's victory this fall...
...warriors must keep in mind are a sense of fair play, an ability to live up to the rules of the game, and if these rules do not seem sufficient, to aid in making new ones. For if men are to live in organized society, they have got to relinquish their purpose when it interferes with the well-being of their fellow-citizens. Nevertheless; even in this field as well as one's own personal life, judgment plays a vital function. A Harvard graduating class is in a more favorable position than many other young men in the country today...
However his may be, University men will probably welcome the opportunity to express their general reaction to the New Deal. As the generation which will shortly be entering the market place and taking up the direction of affairs as their elders relinquish control, they are naturally anxious to see that their heritage shall not turn out to be a mess of pottage. They are the ones on whom will rest in large measure the burden of paying the freight on the post-war joy ride and the subsequent smash; and whatever follies may have been or are likely...
Completing 34 years on the Harvard faculty, James Haughton Woods '87, professor of Philosophy, will relinquish his chair in June and become professor emeritus. He is also a member of the corporation of the Harvard-Yenching Institute...
Congressman Robert Bacon of Long Island was almost the only active opponent to the passage of the McDuffie Bill in the House. He declared that an amendment of the Constitution was required to relinquish colonial possession and that the United States had a moral duty to continue her occupation. Moral duties and constitutionalities have little weight with Senator Smoot's sugar lobby, however, and considering the obvious desirability of increasing local and Cuban sugar production, the nobility of Bacon's sentiment was better quashed than quaffed. In an era of economic nationalism, the charitable support of colonial possessions, however Christian...