Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...levy it "or any other kind" to balance the Budget. His face grew red and his voice sharp as he told his colleagues that it was their ''paramount duty" to supply revenue to maintain the Government's financial integrity. If the Budget was not balanced, he warned, foreigners would withdraw their deposits from the U. S., the dollar would be driven off the gold standard, every bank in the land would be closed in 60 days and ''a financial panic that has never been equaled in this republic" would follow...
...head, he fired one well-aimed shot. "The suicide of Major Kuga." said the Japanese military spokesman at Shanghai, "has aroused the greatest sympathy and admiration in Japanese military and civilian circles here." In Shanghai the Oriental haggling match over when & how Japan's forces will withdraw eased into its leisurely month last week at the British Consulate...
...Prohibition did not prohibit, was in fact an "abysmal failure." The Greater Atlanta Prohibition & Law Enforcement League began to circulate a petition for a special election to oust him. Though the League could not get one-third of the signatures required for a recall vote, Mayor Key had to withdraw from his men's Bible class at Grace Methodist Church. Thereupon he began a non-denominatiorial Bible class in a theatre where he was free to excoriate his critics scripturally...
...Smith, despite his earlier statement that he would not contest for another nomination, allowed his name to go in for the primary. April 26. Boston's Mayor Curley, hot for Roosevelt, began hectoring the Brown Derby with telegraphic demands that, since New Hampshire had repudiated him, he withdraw from Massachusetts. Mr. Smith wired back that he did not consider the use of his name in the primary at odds with his no-candidate statement. Mayor Curley thereupon telegraphed Mr. Smith that he was "glad," published the correspondence in the Press and took to the air with a broad intimation...
...snatch a political victory, told them "there are only two real flags in the world henceforth: the red flag of Democratic Socialism and the black flag of Capitalism." Patriotic indignation overflowed. By open letter Shaw tried to persuade Wilson to request that Great Britain, France and Germany should withdraw from Belgium and fight in their own territories. He re-reminded the President of "the quaint absurdity of a war waged formally between the German Kaiser, the German Tsar, the German King of the Belgians, the German King of England, the German Emperor of Austria." Shaw could see the absurdity...