Word: rescindment
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...Chairman of the Senate Immigration Committee. Its publication occasioned Senatorial thumpings, and oratorical flurries, including an effort from Senator Shortridge of California, who branded Hanihara's protest as a "spurious, verbose communication, unfounded on fact," Ex-Senator Phelan of California issued a statement demanding that the United States rescind the Gentlemen's Agreement and regulate its own immigration laws rather than delegate this authority to another country. He was supported by the American Legion, the National Grange, the American Federation of Labor, and the Native Sons of the Golden West...
...undergraduate resistance continued. On Wednesday the undergraduates declared that they would suffer suspension rather than violate their ethical principles by accepting enforced attendance at religious services. In order to save these athletes a mass meeting of the undergraduate body was held, at which it was voted to rescind the vote of resistance taken on Monday. While the leaders of the movement do not admit, that their cause is lost, they have decided to abandon their resistance until the entire student body can support the movement...
...That General Wood's refusal to rescind penalties for delayed payment of taxes in regions devastated by locusts and typhoons has aroused the Filipinos to action...
...York Tribune, says: " There have been few things that hurt the Administration so much as the disclosure that liquor was being sold on the ships owned and operated by the United States Shipping Board." The President ordered that to cease some time ago, and now to rescind that order would be to open himself once more to criticism...
...action of the corporation was taken by a solemn, specific, legally binding resolution which will oblige the monument t be built unless the corporation by some act s solemn, as specific, and as legally-binding shall rescind the resolution and return the money already raised to the subscribers. --JOHN JAY CHAPMAN...