Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Couzens Bill. Largely because of the activities of these holding companies in mixing up mergers, Michigan's Senator James Couzens, Chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, introduced a Bill to withdraw from the I. C. C. its power to approve rail mergers. Effect of this bill would be to "freeze" the railroad map as it is until such time as holding companies can be brought under Federal control. Should roads attempt to merge without authority, under the Couzens Bill the U. S. could enjoin them. The ban on consolidations would be lifted if and when "adequate legislation properly...
...President Hoover last week awaited a full report by his Haitian Commission which sailed for the U. S. from Port-au-Prince after a fortnight's investigation in the Black Republic. General was the prediction that the President, on the Commission's recommendation, would promptly withdraw Brigadier General John Henry Russell, U. S. High Commissioner and unofficial autocrat over Haiti, and appoint in his place a regular diplomatic representative...
...into the Vatican he introduced telephones, elevators, electric lights, typewriters. When Theodore Roosevelt visited Rome in 1910 the College of Cardinals refused to permit an audience with the Pope unless he promised not to address Roman Methodists. Merry del Val protested by tendering his resignation, but was asked to withdraw it by the Pope. When Benedict XV died, Merry del Val was strongly mentioned as a possible successor. He liked to play golf, to watch baseball games between U. S. students in Rome. Last summer he visited London, went incognito to Hyde Park, heckled lay Catholic speakers by questioning their...
...into restful slumber, so weary was he with hearing the same old facts used to damn the 18th Amendment. When handclapping in the audience became very loud, Dry Representative Yates of Illinois remarked: "I object to this noise. If we are to have a town meeting here I will withdraw." When nobody seemed to care whether he left or not, he decided to stay...
Cheers and applause from the Labor benches; cries of "Withdraw! Withdraw...