Word: relinquish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although officers would not discuss the changed policies, observers felt that the 101st was preparing to relinquish control to the federalized National Guard. This move has been urged by Representative Brooks Hays (D-Ark.), and many feel that tensions would be eased by withdrawing the regular Army...
Along with the offer to surrender these functions went a healthy quid pro quo: to finance them at the state level, the U.S. was prepared to relinquish to the states roughly a half share of federal inheritance and gift taxes ($1.3 billion this year), and about $542 million in excise taxes collected on such items as telephone calls and theater tickets...
...them tell about it back home, nothing is more odious to the governors of the several states than the concentration of power in Washington. But last week, gathered at historic Williamsburg, Va. for the 49th annual Governors' Conference, they heard President Eisenhower propose that the Federal Government should relinquish some of its responsibilities in favor of the states. The governors reacted as though he were trying to hand them a sockful of scorpions...
...year from its 38-link chain. His father, Co-Founder Fred Lazarus Jr., 72, moved up to chairman. Former Chairman Lincoln Filene, 92, also a founder and the dean of U.S. retailers, eased into the new job of honorary chairman. The executive switch means that Fred Lazarus will steadily relinquish more authority to his son, who in 22 years with the company following his graduation from Dartmouth has held every post from sales clerk to basement-store manager. Like his son, chunky Fred Lazarus ("retailing is our life") also worked up from the basement. He became Federated...
...four months since he assumed the premiership, Kishi has refused to be scared by left-wing Japanese political attacks against U.S. bases in Okinawa, but at the same time has made it clear that he thinks the U.S. should relinquish some of its control over Okinawa's civil administration. He has stoutly opposed both the U.S. and Russian refusal to halt H-bomb tests, but he has gone publicly and vigorously on record in favor of a common front against both Russian and Chinese Communism...