Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with his black slander on the U. S. A situation had undoubtedly been created that called for diplomatic handling. Mr. Porter was anything but suave, he fell in Lord Cecil's error, replied angrily that the charge was a false and vile slander. Once Lord Cecil arose to withdraw his statement, but Mr. Porter would not yield the floor. Said he: "You can reply later." He went on to defend the U. S., quoted figure after figure, and ended with a transposition of James Russell Lowell's famed phrase: "Let us put Right on the throne and Wrong...
...tongue to characterize that a man should be worthy of a seat in this body and should, after several days' deliberation, take the halfway course of volunteering a half-hearted apology for an offense which he has neither the courage nor the intelligence to justify or withdraw...
...fire sprang from the Democratic ranks. Senator Caraway began it; Senator Neely continued it; then Senator Robinson, the Democratic leader, exclaimed: "It is a manly thing, when one gives offense, whether intentionally or unintentionally, to make a frank and manly apology . . . If the Senator desires to apologize and to withdraw what appears to have been a deliberate affront and befouling of his own nest, a discrediting of his constituency, he will have to withdraw the vital parts of his address, in which he charged himself and his colleagues with deliberately committing crimes against the Government and violating moral as well...
...Democratic Party was the point around which the beleaguered white people of the South rallied and looked for aid, and it is to the everlasting credit of the Republican Party that one of its Presidents saw the evil and came to our assistance. . . . I ask my colleague to withdraw the entire speech...
...Dial bowed to the force of Senatorial opinion: "Not having made the speech with any intent to offend anybody, I withdraw it from the record...