Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the minimum of means, the strikers began what they called "hit & run" picketing. They would show up at one exchange and when telephone workers refused to cross picket lines, supervisory workers and executives would have to be pressed into service to man the switchboards. Then the strikers would withdraw abruptly to picket another exchange. Harassed officials were kept busy shuttling reinforcements from one district to another...
...Lake Success last week there were signs that Franco was at least partly right. Joined by the Philippine Republic, seven Latin American nations proposed that the U.N. withdraw a 1946 General Assembly resolution which urged U.N. members to withdraw their senior diplomats from Spain (though not to discontinue all diplomatic relations) and prohibited international agencies affiliated with the U.N. from inviting Spanish representatives to their meetings...
...variety of reasons--including the Korean war and the weakness of Hanley's candidacy--Dewey changed his mind, but there was strong upstate support for Hanley. After public pressure and private meetings, however, Hanley agreed to withdraw in favor of Dewey for governor and instead take the senatorial nomination against the Democrats' top vote-getter, Herbert H. Lehman...
...Harry Truman ordered General MacArthur to withdraw his statement to the Veterans of Foreign Wars saying that Formosa...
...Reds were able to withdraw sizable forces into North Korea...