Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letters. Zola attacked Huysmans; Maupassant, Verlaine and others defended him. In 1924, the present publishers report, Là-Bas was is sued in the U.S. but ran afoul of John S. Sumner, industrious secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Vice. Publisher Albert Boni agreed to withdraw the book and destroy the plates. Now, a generation later, readers may well be of two minds as to who had the right of the matter - the celebrated bluenose or the historian of "Bluebeard.'' At any rate, those who look to the book for bits of cheerful pornography will...
...Street glumly estimated a float of $100 million to $150 million worth of unsold high-grade bonds in dealers' hands, with another $500 million worth of new bonds scheduled for offering within the next three weeks. The market was so saturated that Standard Oil of California decided to withdraw a planned $150 million offering because the underwriters' suggested price was too high. A $20 million issue by Pacific Power & Light Co. was tough to sell even with a yield of 4.35%. Moreover, when two syndicates that had been supporting the AA-rated issues of Illinois Power...
...model" the relationships between France and its overseas possessions. De Gaulle remained carefully vague as to whether or not Algeria would also get "federal" status under his new order. But he was already showing a willingness to make major concessions to restore peace in North Africa. France promised to withdraw all troops within a month from eleven garrison posts scattered through the south and east of Morocco, and seems to be prepared to evacuate all its bases in Tunisia save the great naval installations at Bizerte (as proposed by the Anglo-American "good offices" team, which can expect no credit...
...civil war. In that case, those who. through party considerations incomprehensible to me, shall have prevented me from pulling the nation once again from its difficulties while there was still time, will bear a heavy responsibility. As for me, there would be nothing left for me but to withdraw into my sorrow until my death...
...Benevolent Despot Salazar permits Portugal to vote for a rubber-stamp National Assembly or a tame President. The elections are always won by Salazar's National Union Party, and the rules are peculiar: 1) the opposition may campaign for only 30 days, 2) traditionally, the opposition presidential candidates withdraw before election day, 3) anyone who is in opposition must submit to being labeled Communist. 4) Portuguese law firmly prohibits demonstrations of any kind in the streets...