Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conclusion, Metcalf's critics note that Widener is more a research library than a circulation one. "A few extra steps to withdraw books is not serious. Living up to the spirit of Dr. Metcalf's revisions, it might be best to put the charging desk just inside the basement door, a few feet from Massachusetts Avenue...
...organize protection for all slot-machine and punchboard operations through the whole state. In Missouri, the state government "narrowly escaped falling under the control of gangsters" in 1948, the committee declared. Former State Attorney General Roy McKittrick testified that the late Charlie Binaggio offered him $50,000 to withdraw his rival candidacy to now-Governor Forrest Smith, told him: "I have to have a governor." After election, Binaggio was seen so often leaving Governor Smith's office that reporters dubbed him "BackDoor Charlie." But Binaggio failed to get a wide-open state from Smith; for his unforgivable failure...
...over Kashmir, which for more than three years has had India and Pakistan on the verge of war. The U.S. and Britain proposed that another U.N. mediator be appointed (to succeed Sir Owen Dixon, who failed last year). The new-mediator was to get both India and Pakistan to withdraw all their troops from Kashmir and arrange for the long-delayed plebiscite in which the people of Kashmir themselves are supposed to decide whether they want to be under Indian or Pakistani rule. The U.S. and Britain also suggested that a U.N. force should keep order in Kashmir during...
Father Ganson F. Ryan wrote a letter to the Syracuse College paper last week explaining why he asked University officials there to withdraw Mather's invitation to speak at an inter-faith banquet three weeks...
Replying to Ryan's statements in a letter, Mather said this week that "one member of a committee of several chaplains forcing the majority of that group to withdraw the invitation against their wishes... reminds me of the Soviet Union's use of the votes in the Security Council...