Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...duration, is spread over the nine months of this year, and is marked by the consistent failure of the Powers to realize that Mussolini has meant business all along, and that if war was to be prevented, the time to act was before Mussolini had gone too far to withdraw...
...This editorial has brought me to a decision which I have been resisting for two years or more: that is, to withdraw from the Methodist Church. . . . I happen to be an officer of a public utility holding company and consequently I am an 'untouchable' and probably ought not raise my voice in protest, but I have been doing it and I am going to do so increasingly. . . . The Methodist Church . . . has meant much to me. . . . However, I can no longer continue to support in my small way, either financially or spiritually, a course with which I so thoroughly...
...Love." Since the Duke of Gloucester was obliged to mourn last week, he prepared to withdraw to the bachelor seclusion of his regiment at Catterick Camp. It was he who in 1926 represented King George at the marriage of Belgian Crown Prince Leopold and the beautiful young Swedish Princess who last week died Queen Astrid...
...attempting to influence the Press on the Public Utility Bill and particularly on Associated Gas & Electric Mr. Hopson had tried the usual trick of irate business men, threatening to withdraw advertising. Papers he admitted working on without success were the New York Times and the Scripps-Howard group. He had also protested vigorously comments by Arthur Brisbane and the late Will Rogers anent holding companies. The Hearst Press as a whole and the Gannett chain he found no fault with. In fact he had wired William-Randolph Hearst ideas for editorials, had increased his advertising in Hearst papers...
...None would permit himself to be quoted, but said one: "Only a few months ago Italy's credit position was such that she was desperately cutting down and rationing her imports, yet now she is importing war supplies from everywhere. She has taken such drastic measures as to withdraw all silver from circulation in Italy [TIME, June 24], measures such as usually are necessary only toward the end of a war. If the Dictator has to do such things now, what will he have to do later?" Said another: "Suppose even that Italy conquers all Ethiopia...