Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indiana, it seemed, arose in angry protest. Senator James Eli Watson and the state's entire Congressional delegation pleaded with "General" Brown to withdraw his threat. Loudly they pointed out that the Post Office Department had no authority to change a village's name and that so long as the people of Santa Claus wanted to be Santa Clausians, their post office should stay Santa Claus...
...world flight he and Socialite Herndon made a "gentleman's agreement" to divide all proceeds equally. Shortly before the flight, he declared, Herndon insisted on a 75-25 contract forbidding Pangborn to lecture or write for publication about the flight without Herndon's permission. Pangborn did not then withdraw "because all my friends would have thought I was yellow...
...remains to be seen whether the League of Nations, acting upon the petition of the various professors, can prevail on Mussolini to withdraw the oath. Fortunately, unlike the dictators of past ages, he cannot be wholly indifferent of foreign opinion. Expediency may persuade him if other arguments fail. The Spanish Revolution indicates that the hostility of universities is no negligible factor in the fortunes of absolutism. But in any case, the petition of the Harvard professors, together with the protests of various European scholars, are admirable instances of the internationalism of genuine scholarship. Whether successful or not, such a gesture...
...fourth day of an undergraduates' beard-growing contest President George Barton Cutten of Colgate University compelled his son William Francis to withdraw...
...Sakhalin-Ula I used to dine twice a year with the Soviet officials. I can swear that no foreigners have given or are giving me guns, munitions, supplies or money! I want the League of Nations to fulfill its duty. I want it to force the Japanese to withdraw from Northern Manchuria. If I am forced to abandon Tsitsihar I intend to retire into the back country...