Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge, nothing daunted by the Warren affair of last spring, is preparing for another brush with the Senate. Through the White House spokesman he has just announced his intention not to withdraw the appointment of Judge McCamant to the Federal Circuit Court, which the Senatorial Judiciary Committee has recently rejected...
...That the U. S. may at any time withdraw from the Court, and that the constitution of the Court shall not be changed without the consent...
...with 48 other Powers will doubtless occupy some time. But it is to be hoped that the other Powers will be willing to proceed to it promptly. The reservations embody the original conditions framed by Secretary Hughes, but they also go further in providing that the United States may withdraw at any time, and in requiring advisory opinions to be given after due notice and after an opportunity for hearing, and in requiring American consent for any advisory opinion relating to a matter in which we have or claim an interest. No other country has set such conditions...
...letter of Thomas Slocum and that of Francis Rogers relative to the withdrawal of the Harvard Glee Club from the Intercollegiate Glee Club Contest I add my sincere approval. Properly done and at the proper time, without pretext, it is wholly within the right of each of the component clubs to withdraw from the organization. But to wait till the contest is at hand before signifying such intention can be productive only of disarrangement and of justly unfavorable criticism. The reason given, that the composition selected for uniform competition is "of musical inferiority and real musical worth", strikes my ears...
...reservations were evidently designed to please the most cautious isolationists. Under these reservations the United States needs only bring such matters as it pleases to the attention of the Court; is quite at liberty to disregard its decisions, and may withdraw at any time it sees fit. In short, the Court proponents may now boast with even greater pride that American participation in that body would be quite harmless...