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Word: retractions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hope that you will see fit to retract this piece of yellow journalism and inform your readers of the true facts. Wm. Leavitt Sullivan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHEA SUPPORTER REPLIES | 3/13/1954 | See Source »

...Riegelman "Wagner could not go far in this campaign without revealing a reckless dishonesty and cowardice . . . He had better put up promptly or be forever branded as totally untrustworthy and unfit." This week Governor Dewey's counsel George M. Shapiro, wired Wagner: "Name . . . the alleged person or publicly retract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: At the First Turn | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

With this in mind, the professors decided that the money raised would do more good for Fairchild and Schricker than the bad publicity would do harm. And while this action may or may not be wise, it is not something they can retract. The news is out, and all money collected can do now is help to remove McCarthy and Jenner from the Senate. For this reason, those who share the aims of the Civil Liberties Appeal should have no qualms about supporting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appealing | 10/16/1952 | See Source »

...Boston Post, however, quoted me as saying "I know who they were--a couple of harmless Southern boys." I want the Post to retract the statement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POST DISTORTION | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

Next morning, McKinney snapped: "McCormick's statement will be retracted, or else." The Tribune refused to retract, but it dropped its epithet "crook" in favor of "get-rich-quick boy," and settled back to survey the rift that had been made between Chicago's Democrats and the new man Harry Truman had run in to boss the National Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: A Knuckle-Dusting from Bertie | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

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