Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime Democrats were in uproar. They begged Republican Senator Norris, a stanch New Dealer who campaigned for Smith in 1928, for Roosevelt in 1932, to accept their nomination. When he refused, State Chairman James C. Quigley confidently filed for the nomination, announced that after winning it he would withdraw any time Senator Norris asked him to. Dazed and dejected were Democratic regulars when they counted their primary votes, discovered that a political cuckoo named Terry Carpenter had thrust himself into their nest with the combined support of Townsendites, Coughlinites, Share-Our-Wealthers and Germans grateful for a speech he once...
...revealed that John Nesmith '38 will coach the Freshman backfield in place of George W. Blackwood '37, who felt he needed to spend more time on his studies. Nesmith was a back on the Varsity squad last year. He reported this fall, but had to withdraw from action after hurting an old knee injury sustained this summer falling off a horse. During spring practice of his Freshman year he won the punting contest...
Harvard still boasts many a faculty giant like the Law School's Roscoe Pound and Felix Frankfurter, Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, Physicist Percy Williams Bridgman, Astronomer Harlow Shapley, but in time they must yield and withdraw as Economist Frank William Taussig and Shakespearean George Lyman Kittredge did this year (TIME, Feb. 17). To replace them. President Conant admits, will be harder now that the growth of State Universities has pushed Harvard from its "natural pre-eminence," made it uncertain that a promising young scholar will heed the once undeniable "call" from Cambridge...
...enormously stimulating prospect of a Budge v. Perry final, the Men's Singles Championship at Forest Hills last week had very little to add. A leg injury forced Defending Champion Wilmer Allison to withdraw his entry. The rest of the seeded players included Jacques Brugnon and three young Frenchmen performing in the U. S. for the first time to gain experience; that coterie of second-flight U. S. stars, like Sidney Wood, Bryan Grant, Frank Parker and Gregory Mangin, who long ago made it clear that their playing would never justify their potentialities; and the latest schoolboy sensation from...
...this depreciation, Albertans were paying the Government 52% interest a year on their average weekly balance. Last week the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce called the Aberhart money "a heavy and discriminatory taxation scheme." The Chamber had already appealed to the Dominion Government at Ottawa to force Premier Aberhart to withdraw his prosperity certificates...