Word: relinquish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When President Roosevelt urged Congress yesterday to relinquish the naval bases in the Philippine Islands, he was taking the first step towards granting them a satisfactory independence. The sugar tariffs imminent on autonomy will probably raise protest from Philippine capital, but there is no possible doubt that if they are to leave our control, they must accept the same treatment as any other foreign nation. Imperialists in this country will decry the losing of our Far East naval bases. They will claim that such action makes a possible Japanese attack probable. While there is some truth in their fears...
...field of colleges including Holy Cross, Boston College, M.I.T., Maine, and New Hampshire. A. A. Bliss '36 was followed by J. P. Scheu '35, who ran a magnificent race to put the Crimson in a commanding lead which J. B. White '34, and R. S. Playfair '36 did not relinquish...
...rejection of that hypothesis by two of Europe's greatest nations must call its utility as an instrument into serious question. The dictator can have small truck with parliamentary diplomacy Mussolini has been cold to the League and the Nazis have been adamant France and Great Britain must not relinquish their stand against secret diplomacy, which is the most heady of all stimulants to war. But European economics make war at the present time a virtual impossibility and between the prestige of Geneva and the need for Hitler's reentry to international grace there is small choice. Stress the instrument...
...your record a statement of all real and personal property and other assets owned by me, and by my wife and children, as of June 1. I suggest that this be filed with my oath of office. . . . It is my intention to file a comparable statement when I relinquish the . . . office...
...will be no easy matter for Mrs. Libby Holman Reynolds to relinquish any part of her child's right to the inheritance. Before she can relinquish her own rights, it might well be necessary to determine what her rights are. The statement of Lawyer Holman therefore left the question almost exactly where it had been when Zachary Smith Reynolds Jr. propounded it with his first squawk. A few of the other questions which remained for the courts to settle...