Word: relinquish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrangement by which it could help other organizations wishing to show films. "We don't want a monopoly," Charles G. Kadison, Jr. '55, Ivy Film Cinema director, said last night. "We are prepared to help and assist any undergraduate group desiring to exhibit films and, if necessary, we will relinquish some of our scheduled dates to them...
...president of the National Broadcasting Co., who succeeded Joseph McConnell only six months ago, resigned "for reasons of health," and his duties were temporarily taken over by RCA-NBC Chairman David Sarnoff. White has been in ill health almost from the time he took over NBC, was forced to relinquish more and more of his duties...
Washington guessed that Malenkov would not abandon so important a job voluntarily, and that, therefore, this was proof that he is not yet in full control. London guessed just the opposite: that this was proof that Malenkov is so firmly in control that he could safely relinquish one of his heaviest assignments. Outside the Kremlin, no one really knew...
...word reached the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, Harry Truman signed an order to his ex-boss of steel, Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer. "Dear Mr. Secretary," wrote the President, "in view of today's decision by the Supreme Court, you are hereby directed to take appropriate steps to relinquish immediately possession of plants, facilities and other property . . . which have been in possession of the Government...
...Walton Heath with a grasshopper as try and work with Northcliffe." When Lloyd George was reelected, Northcliffe blamed Editor Dawson for not fighting him vigorously enough. "I beg you to do either one of two things," Northcliffe wrote Dawson, "endeavor to see eye to eye with me, or to relinquish your position." Then Northcliffe fired him, saying: "Parting with poor Robin is a personal grief to me," but he was a "child in the hands of skilled intriguers...