Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME, March 7, states, relative to General Butler, "The War Department ... allowed him to withdraw his resignation," (p. 20, col. 3, lines...
...this article on General Butler, TIME, March 7, p. 20, you speak of the War Department sending him to Shanghai and later on of the War Department's allowing him to withdraw his resignation. I thought you knew that the Marines were in the Navy Department and subject to the Secretary of the Navy...
Along the Chinese battlefront west of Shanghai all was suspiciously quiet last week. Suddenly the subordinate Northern general* in command of Shanghai's immediate defenses went over to the Southern enemy, ordered the 2,000 troops under his command to withdraw back toward Shantung whence they came only a fortnight ago (TIME, March 7). Simultaneously the Southern generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek launched a swift attack to cut the Shanghai-Nanking railway at Soochow. The fall of Soochow (reported but unconfirmed) would cut off the Northern armies of the "two great Changs"† from hastening to defend Shanghai and leave...
...Public Safety (TIME, Jan. 4, 1926). He resigned from the marines to continue as "Philadelphia Dry Tsar," and at the same time Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick of Philadelphia dismissed him. The War Department recognized that General Butler had been the victim of Philadelphia politics and allowed him to withdraw his resignation. His assignment to China is prudent, well-advised, a happy choice...
...That either party to the present agreement between Harvard and Yale may withdraw upon six month's notice preceded by joint conference...