Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order was really a means of spreading work and pay with minimum hardships to labor. As a matter of strategy he protested the order to offer a substitute: reduction of working hours from 40 to 30 per week and a proportionate increase in pay. Next he made a tactical retreat from his own substitute to take up a winning position which would give the Union more power and open the way to a closed shop...
...morning Alexis Mdivani, best married of the three marrying Georgian princelings, left his rooms in London's swank Hotel Claridge and drove out to Ranelagh for some polo. No sooner had he left than his young wife, Barbara Hutton Mdivani, flounced out of Claridge's too, and retreated to a private sanatorium. Her doctor announced that she could see no one, not even the Prince. Thus began the twelfth month of the Hutton-Mdivani round-the-world honeymoon. For the next two days Alexis allowed nothing to interrupt his polo (on a magnificent string of ponies given...
...doubt extremely difficult to avoid a situation of the China kind in the fact of imperialistic capitalism. However, American diplomats must come to a more conscious realization of the graveness of the situation. I do not favor a retreat, which could only be stupid with Europe in the game, but I do favor a more cautious pressing of our suit. If all of us could only keep a sense of friendly rivalry we would be a long way toward maintenance of peace. But, give Japan some thought, for she is, after all, in her own sphere. Alfred M. Nittle...
Banana-shaped Crete, in the centre, belongs to Greece. There in prehistoric times lived the Minotaur and there men fashioned golden goblets of great beauty and invented the water closet. On Crete at present is the summer home and strategic retreat of Eleutherios Venizelos, sly Grand Old Man of Greek politics...
...money to buy the Hoxsie place themselves. Perry, Herendene's best friend and neighbor, had the money to spare, but he was having a love affair with Herendene's wife, which complicated matters. Upshot was that Hoxsie sold to the Providence company and Perry made a discretionary retreat to Europe. Mary Herendene's husband discovered a revealing billet doux from her lover. Hoxsie gave up hopeless farming and got the fishing boat he had pined for, but he hardly liked the sight of the cheap new houses springing up in his old fields. No one was very...