Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ousted and replaced by Mayor Frank Hague of Jer sey City; hoping people noticed, last week, that John William Davis said: "Al Smith ... is highly acceptable to me;" hoping that it was wise to have let word go out, and it did go last week, that Candidate Smith will withdraw from the convention if not nominated by the tenth ballot; hoping that his refusal to fly with Col. Lindbergh ("No flying for me," he said) would not make him less popular...
...Will Dr. Willis be equally fair and withdraw his prophecies and let us pursue pur way in peace ? And last of all, will the insurance companies be as magnanimous in reducing rates as they were generous in raising them...
...when he saw the cup about to be dashed from his lips by blond Teutons to whom dusky, petite France was a morsel, not an inspiration. Nearer tramped the Conquerors. An impromptu French defense, mobilized in taxicabs seemed sure to crumble. Frightened, scared to the marrow, Frenchmen proceeded to withdraw their capital from Paris to Bordeaux. Automatically the Diplomatic Corps would follow the Government. Suddenly it was discovered that the U. S. Ambassador alone proposed to remain behind...
Elected. T. M. Girdler, vice president in charge of operations for Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. of Pittsburgh, to be president; to succeed Charles A. Fisher, resigned to withdraw from active business...
...Canadian Pacific Steamship Company last week notified the North Atlantic Steamship Conference that it would withdraw from that body. Inasmuch as it is through the conference that the steamship companies regulate their trans-Atlantic fares and keep equal the fees charged passengers for equivalent services, the Canadian Pacific's withdrawal is tantamount to a declaration, if not of war, then of protest against the practices of a competitor...