Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...class of 1956, out of the 1215 people originally admitted, 283 withdrew. Two hundred fifty-five of the 1150 people composing the class of 1957 did not graduate on schedule. Of those leaving, less than half were forced to withdraw by the Administration. There is no reason to think these classes untypical...
...accept the decision of the person wanting to leave, but if I think his position unwise I tell him so. If a man says he wants to withdraw to mature I tell him that's nonsense. He must have a more positive purpose. I often get students who want to be told why they shouldn't leave...
Thomas' plan for getting things going again in Little Rock: 1) Negroes would withdraw all pending integration suits in Arkansas; 2) segregationists would stop harassing Negro students at Central High; 3) with the approval of federal court, a biracial commission would be named to meet with each local school board and help it work out its own program for meeting the Supreme Court's 1954 order to integrate "with air deliberate speed." Starting time for the new "voluntary progress" plan: the opening of school next fall...
Chits for Cash. While Magsaysay scrupulously refused to accept campaign contributions himself, Garcia let it be known that he would accept contributions personally-or they might be given to his wife, whose financial acumen and taste in jewelry are much admired in Manila. For a long while, permission to withdraw dollar reserves from the Central Bank was granted only when accompanied by chits initialed by Garcia. During his six-month campaign, the bank's dollar reserves dropped $90 million as a result of heavy but legal withdrawals...
...adamant refusal to have diplomatic relations with Communist countries, the Prime Minister bluntly told them: "We cannot allow representatives of Communist countries here while we are fighting Communists in the jungle. We just cannot have ties with you." Later, when 35 British Labor M.P.s demanded that Britain withdraw her troops from Malaya, they got no support from Rahman. Rather than urge British troops to go home, the Cambridge-educated Prince insists that "it is as much the duty of the British people as the Malayan to meet the Communist challenge...