Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What will happen to the state insurance commissions which now collect $100,000,000 annually in fees from insurance companies? In his lone dissent, Justice Stone gave a gloomy answer: Said he: "The practical effect ... is to withdraw from the states, in large measure, the regulation of insurance and to confer it on the national government-which has ... no scheme of regulation." This will loose "a flood of litigation and legislation, state and national...
...Marshal and the War. Tito does not expect the Germans to withdraw without a fight. He intends to continue the fight against them until the total and utter defeat of Hitler. Right now, he could place 150,000 soldiers at the disposal of the Allies for action elsewhere if Yugoslavia were liberated. Later, perhaps, twice as many...
...have decided to withdraw from public affairs by appointing my son, the Prince of Piedmont, Lieutenant General of the Realm [TIME, April 17]. This appointment will become effective by a formal transfer of power on the day on which the Allied troops enter Rome. This decision ... is final and irrevocable...
...aggressive commando raids. "The force's most outstanding action was a violent diversionary raid on the town of Sessano during a night when the situation was critical in another sector." So violent was the diversion that it "relieved pressure on the threatened area and made the Germans withdraw their main defense positions a mile or more on a long front"-but the whole job was done by only 100 face-blackened, bazooka-armed U.S.-Canadians...
...Bookstore (whose head, Richard F. Fuller, is also President of the Boston Board of Retail Book Merchants), and drawn an interested clerk's attention to Strange Fruit's overripe passages. Soon all Boston booksellers received a notice from the Board of Retail Book Merchants asking them to withdraw the book...