Word: retractions
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Aisner did, however, return the Times-Republican books after reading his report to a well-attended meeting of the Planning Committee and new Times-Republican counsel Robert C. Hagopian. He did not retract the $500 bill he had presented for services...
Prosperity, the Washington experts were finding out last week, is something like a wife. If you tell her she is beautiful, she glows. But if you tell her that she should pat here and retract there to keep her beauty enduring, she breaks into tears, convinced that she is sagging all over...
Died. Archie Galbraith Cameron, 61, terrible-tempered Speaker (since 1950) of Australia's House of Representatives (in 1940, as Minister for both Commerce and the Navy, he refused to retract an insult made on the floor of the House, became the only Minister in the Commonwealth to be voted out of a Parliament for disciplinary reasons); of a lung ailment; in Sydney...
...walked out of the Assembly, refusing to retract, 65 Deputies followed him. Said Menderes, as the reduced Assembly passed his bill (281 to 2): "Mark you, tomorrow they will be back." But the opposition did not return next day, and their spokesman announced that henceforth they would boycott the National Assembly. Thus, thin-skinned Adnan Menderes will be free of niggling criticism not only in public meetings but in the Grand National Assembly itself. Probably no one but Adnan Menderes found that prospect reassuring...
...meet the needs of PBH's expanding program, the Combined Charities Committee and the Student Council should retract the 1948 decision. Instead of permitting students to specify how their contributions are to be distributed, the directors of the Drive should specify on the solicitation cards what percentage of the donations will go to each of the recommended groups. Students who do not want to give to these six could still put down the names of other organizations and contribute their money to them. With such a percentage system, the Drive could give Brooks House a higher, more stable income...