Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those salesmen who already had outside addresses do have a legitimate quarrel. They can argue, and rightly, that the University's Solicitation Committee should not withdraw or withhold their right to sell in dormitories simply because they have not joined a firm which offers them no particular benefits. It seems clear that such "join-or-lose-your-franchise" threats have been at least implied, if not explicitly stated...
...Wilson's new directive, the Air Force 25,000, the Navy 15,000, and the Marines 10,000, bringing total military manpower down to 2,600,000. The Air Force will come down five wings to 123; the Army will probably drop another division to 15 (but will withdraw troops from no overseas area except Japan); the Navy will mothball 35 operating ships. Further cuts may turn out to be necessary, Wilson hinted, when his successor, Procter & Gamble's President Neil Hosier McElroy, gets to working out the defense budget for fiscal...
...quiet, friendly talk behind closed doors; there were smiles and handshakes for the camera, then politely worded, carefully prepared statements. Through all of these devices the result was clear: the President of the U.S. had flatly insisted that the governor of Arkansas must bow to the law and withdraw from his position of rebellion...
...Western Conference of Teamsters, who sat with Hickey and Haggerty. "Not a man at this table has ever done anything he needs to be ashamed of. The best thing Jim Hoffa could ever do for the union is to stand up right now and say he'll withdraw. But there's no chance of that." Said Tom Haggerty: "Well, it's up to us to dignify the name of our union." Franklin talked of the support behind Hickey and Haggerty and a third anti-Hoffa candidate, California's Democratic Congressman Jack Shelley of San Francisco...
...Assembly had already passed eleven resolutions on Hungary, including those condemning Russia's brutal suppression of the Hungarian rebellion last fall and demanding that the Soviets withdraw. The Soviets ignored them all. But to keep the crime of Hungary before world opinion, the U.S rallied 37 nations to sponsor still another resolution...