Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under C.E.D.'s plan, the Government would, over a span of five years or so, gradually withdraw all price supports. Meanwhile, it would whittle away at the farmer surplus with 1) the whole-farm "land retirement" program and 2) a federal-state-local voluntary resettlement program to inform marginal farmers about urban job opportunities and help them make the shift with free vocational training, even financial aid. The C.E.D. proposals would be expensive, but C.E.D. claims for them one outstanding virtue: "They would have a foreseeable...
...chairmanship of the President's new Civil Rights Commission last week stepped retired Supreme Court Justice Stanley Forman Reed, 72, only four weeks after taking the job. "Upon reflection," he wrote the President in longhand, "I have concluded that I must withdraw." His reason: his active service in civil rights' investigations and decisions, after sitting in judgment on civil rights' cases before the Supreme Court, might lower "respect for the impartiality of the federal judiciary." Likely prospect to succeed him: Commission Vice Chairman John A. Hannah, 55, president of Michigan State University and onetime (1953-54) Assistant...
...presidency in 1950 to turn to other pursuits (real estate, cigar business, oil leases). University of Kansas-educated Bob Riss, who once said candidly, "It's much easier to climb the ladder of success if your father owns the ladder," took over the presidency at 23, decided to withdraw after his self-made, hard-driving father began stepping back in to make more and more of the decisions; he will remain as a director and substantial stockholder. Now facing the elder Riss: a drop in Riss's business from $28 million in 1956 to an estimated $20 million...
Replied Maggie, opening her blue eyes wide: "It would appear that the rules are not consistent with the ad that I endorse, and therefore I regretfully withdraw (or forfeit?) or do whatever is necessary to relinquish press gallery membership. Sorry I didn't know about your rules. Shows you should always read the fine print, doesn't it?" Then, jabbing a hatpin at colleagues who appear frequently on TV's press-panel shows, Maggie noted that she must have broken the rules much earlier with her first appearance on such "sponsored television shows" as Martha Rountree...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18--The Army has prepared orders to withdraw all remaining regular troops from Little Rock before Thanksgiving, and leave to National Guardsmen the enforcement of a court order for integration at the Arkansas city's Central High School...