Word: retractment
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YOUR ARTICLE ON RITA HAYWORTH STATED THAT ELISA CANSINO WAS DEAD. MY MOTHER IS IN SAN FRANCISCO AND VERY MUCH ALIVE. PLEASE BE GOOD ENOUGH TO RETRACT THE STATEMENT AS IT HAS BROUGHT ME MUCH GRIEF BY FRIENDS SENDING ME CONDOLENCES...
This week, as Lindbergh got ready to speak in Fort Wayne, Ind., the question in most minds was whether he would retract or repeat his Des Moines attack. Best guess was that he would let it lie. Says Lindbergh: "I never compromise...
...expected that Finland, now involved with Germany in the attack on Russia, would lose her chance for exemption. But it was too late to retract a bill the President signed last fortnight, allowing Finland to postpone the installments due in 1941 and 1942 on her debt, pay them over a 20-year period starting...
...called "blue blood" to the British Red Cross, but that latter statement is unimportant and you have every right to sneer at me if you so wish to do for giving what was so very much demanded in New York through the radio. But I must ask you to . . . retract the statement that I said or even went anywhere near saying that the English little refugees were "riffraff." . . . I have devoted my entire life to children, and I have taken an active part in the evacuation of our kids, and everyone who knows me realizes that this is a cruel...
...recently you report the mayor of Atlanta as cautioning the people of the city not to tear the clothing off of the movie stars as was done at the premiere of Dodge City. A letter has been dispatched to the mayor requesting him to prove his statement or publicly retract and apologize; in other words, "to put up or shut...