Word: retractment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dissolute brother, Prince Nicholas, celebrated his renunciation by staging a wild party at Mitchell's, atop Montmartre, Paris (see CELEBRITIES DINE). Later he and the mysterious lady left Vienna to seek a quiet exile in Sweden; and he is expected to arrive shortly at Bucharest, in order to retract his rash step, which he now bitterly regrets...
...therefore desire to retract said statement and attack upon the administration of Governor Miriam A. Ferguson and upon the character of Jim Ferguson. I freely admit and acknowledge, confess and declare that my said statement in reference to Governor Ferguson and Jim Ferguson is not true in whole or in part, and my statement above quoted and printed in The Crusader was made without any foundation in fact or upon any excuse that would justify me in making the same...
...preaching popular thrift through insurance, and raising the ethical standards of the business. So rapidly did the Company's income mount in the 60's that it was once attacked in Parliament by Gladstone. Harben showed that the Prime Minister was mistaken, and the latter was forced to retract. Harben also inaugurated scientific industrial insurance, and was the first to gather actual statistics regarding health and deaths...
...needs and problems in a practical way Bishop William T. Manning of the New York diocese disagreed violently with Dr. Grant's utterances, and the dispute that followed shook the Episcopal Church to its foundations. Dr. Grant was firm in his advocacy of a livable religion and refused to retract his statements...
...world are now to be gone over and all data from unofficial sources is to be separated, as is also all information that cannot be substantiated, so that in the future, if the Secretary of State makes a statement about a foreign navy, he will not later have to retract it. This seems a step which should have been taken long ago. From its very nature naval information is hard to check-every nation tries to conceal its naval secrets. Naval attachés make such observations as they can, but it is practically impossible to get direct information from...