Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...executive. Taking everything into consideration, Mr. Hoover may well congratulate himself for his tactical manoeuvre in a most embarrassing situation. Even if his proposal is voted down, as it is almost sure to be, he will have little reason to regret his step. Mr. Garner will be forced to retreat with his abortive gesture; officeholders will continue to trail the Hoover band-wagon; a watchful public will be satisfied...
...this arbitration could have been got through in a day. The prime point, wage reduction, developed into a bitter, inch-by-inch retreat of the employes' representatives...
...concern to executives than copywriters is Macy's stand on cash and prices. Famed are the merchandising wars caused in the past by Macy's offer to undersell each & every rival by at least 6%. Lately the store, under pounding from the Better Business Bureau, has made a slight retreat. The once unreserved boast now reads: "It is a Macy policy to sell its merchandise for at least 6% less than it could if it did not sell exclusively for cash...
Prohibition. Governor Roosevelt is a Wet who has declared for the repeal of the 18th Amendment. Yet, with his eye on the White House, he would like to soft-pedal Prohibition as an issue and retreat into the mists of referenda. Widespread is the belief that, lacking profound Wet convictions, he is deliberately weaseling to woo Dry Democratic support from the South at the convention and in the election. He blocked attempts last year for a Wet declaration by the Democratic National Committee. The Roosevelt-Smith split grew out of opposing viewpoints on Prohibition?one for an honestly militant stand...
...across the continent upon the big red leather chair in the U. S. Senate which holds the long, lean frame of Republican Senator Samuel Shortridge of Menlo Park, Calif. Would the son-in-law of Woodrow Wilson step out of the political obscurity which has enveloped him since his retreat from Madison Square Garden in 1924 and offer himself as a Democratic candidate for the Senate?* Solemnly Son- in-Law McAdoo announced: "A large number of men and women of standing and character have been urging me to enter the race. I have reached no conclusion but I feel...