Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the Federation the union of railway and steamship clerks, freight handlers, express and station employees unless it should abandon claims to jurisdiction over drivers and chauffeurs, etc., who belong to another union. The delegates of the suspended union, which has 160,000 members, threatened that their union would withdraw from the Federation rather than yield...
...STATES OF PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO, MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN v. THE STATE OF ILLINOIS and the CHICAGO SANITARY DISTRICT. In this case the four appellants question the right of the War Department to permit Chicago to withdraw water from Lake Michigan for sanitary purposes. Already the War Department has taken steps to reduce the amount of water withdrawn by the Chicago Sanitary District (TIME, July 20), but if the four states maintain their contention, the restriction will be even more rigid...
...Withdraw this theory and every department of physical research would fall back into heaps of hopelessly dislocated facts, with no more order or reason or philosophical coherence than exists in a basket of marbles, or in the juxtaposition of the multitudinous sands of the seashore...
Were such salaries paid, many men of intellect now preoccupied with the details of business, law or war, could withdraw from active life and lend their minds, unharassed, to the service of human thought-men like Elihu Root, John Hay, Admiral Mahan, Steinmetz. Scholarship would come into its heritage; universities would be dignified. "Our typical 'University' of today would gradually find its place in the new system. Perhaps no great harm comes from assembling these vast crowds of healthy, noisy, young people. Let them enjoy themselves. But why miscall such a place of rendezvous a university...
...True to my line of policy in the Reichstag, I have the honor to inform you that I withdraw from the Centrist party and in the future will consider myself representing the Republican and Socialist wing...