Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...placed artillery and opened fire point-blank on the Habbania field. The British, though badly outnumbered, replied. The Iraqi claimed destroying 26 planes on the ground, but other planes took off and bombed the Iraqi guns. The same day the British in Basra warned the Iraqi troops there to withdraw. They agreed to, but did not. The British seized the Basra airport, dock area and power station. This week the British began a systematic bombing of Iraqi airports, claimed to have destroyed most of the Iraq Air Force...
...were guests of the Naval Academy and they requested us to withdraw Mr. Alexis," declared Director of Athletics Bill Bingham '16 yesterday. "I had no choice in the matter. Had the game been played in Cambridge, I would have insisted that he be allowed...
Woodrow Wilson set up a National War Labor Board to serve much the same purpose. It had no more authority than the present board. President Wilson backed it up with a threat to take over recalcitrant companies, withdraw draft exemptions from stubborn workers. In two instances the U. S. Government actually took over corporations (the telegraph companies, Smith & Wesson). On one occasion Wilson sent the organized machinists of Bridgeport scuttling back to their jobs with Wilsonian words that Mr. Roosevelt may have pondered: "I desire that you return to work. ... If you refuse, each of you will be barred from...
Although two of his colleagues found cause yesterday to withdraw their support from a rally of the Massachusetts peace Council, Francis O. Mathiessen, associate professor of History and Literature, said last night that he could see no reason for withdrawing his own patronage...
Professor Hocking stated that his decision to withdraw as a sponsor of the rally was prompted by his unfamiliarity with the views of the new speakers chosen by the Peace Council. Said he: "As I don't know either of the new speakers, and as I don't know their views, it is absurd for me to consider sponsoring them...