Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this group, which Ec A instructors would refer to as the marginal students, that may be forced to withdraw from college if no new financial avenues are opened. These are the men who would never have planned to come to college at all without Government assistance and who have all along relied on working to pay part of their way. They are particularly hard hit because their wages, like their allotments, do not buy as much as they once did. And a student cannot take on ever increasing hours of work and remain even a reasonable facsimile of a scholar...
Even the insurgent editors from Cambridge were amazed in mid-morning when they offered a bogus paper to some vendors of the "Dartmouth Pictorial" to attract customers. "Yeah, I heard about this," said one. The editors started to withdraw as their masterpiece did not even inspire a snicker...
...matters of policy affecting our Government's relation with the Government of Russia. ... I became a sponsor of the American-Soviet Friendship during the war. ... As you know, I have never been consulted by your officers or executive committee on any position that your organization has taken. . . . Please withdraw my name...
...withdraw to the Oder and let eastern Germany rot; or 3) accept the Byrnes invitation to join in a united German economy, perhaps by February. By then the Russians may present their Allies with 20 million hungry eastern Germans almost stripped of productive machinery-a nightmarish economic liability which could haunt Europe for many years to come...
...time the conference met in secret session to hammer out its program there was little doubt what it would be. The main points, as expected: 1) a Wallace-inspired foreign policy (withdraw U.S. troops from China; combat "imperialism" wherever found; extend economic aid to war-devastated countries; eliminate the step-by-step proposal of the Baruch atom control plan); a New Dealing domestic policy (price & rent controls; a federal civil rights bill; extended social security; minimum wages; soak-the-rich taxation); 3) a resolution applauding Henry Wallace. A permanent committee of 50 would be appointed after the November elections...