Word: retraction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motion was introduced to retract the statement issued unofficially by one member of the club in condemnation of Senator Huey Long. The motion was tabled, but the club refused to recognize the policy as official...
...sermon in which he charged that gambling and prostitution were protected by New York's police. He hotly described the Tammany administration as "a damnable pack of administrative bloodhounds, polluted harpies, and a lying, perjured, rum-soaked, libidinous lot." When he failed either to substantiate or retract his charges, a grand jury denounced him for "dragging New York into the mire and wiping his feet on it." He determined to collect proof of his charges personally. Disguised in checked black & white trousers, red flannel tie and slouch hat, as a rich Westerner eager to see New York, he went...
...Note--After a through investigation of the whole case and after numerous stimulating dives into communications similar to that reprinted above, the CRIMSON finds no reason to retract any statement in its editorial "On the Tribune" which appeared on February 6. Characteristic of the complaints has been the childish tendency to segregate trenchant words and phrases from their context, to ignore all qualifications whatsoever. A careful reconsideration of the editorial should serve as a calming influence. As a denouncement let it be known that the writer of the editorial is a midwesterner...
...particularly in the U. S., have clung to radial engines of a few-hundred horsepower which, while they offer much more head resistance, are generally preferred for commercial and military flying. Such engines can fly great distances. Some observers believe that with more powerful radial engines, the advantage of retractable landing gear will enable landplanes to fly faster than seaplanes, which cannot retract their floats. But there must be landing fields a mile-and-a-half or two miles long, since a plane which flies 400 m.p.h. lands at about no m.p.h...
...London this Havas dispatch so excited Prime Minister MacDonald that he called Premier Herriot on the trans-Channel telephone and begged him to retract...