Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When an impulsive Democrat entered Harry Truman's name in the New Hampshire presidential primary without consulting the White House. Truman gruffly announced that he would withdraw it. All these primaries are just eyewash and don't mean a thing when the national conventions meet, he huffed. Last week, just five days after he made that statement, Truman did a full back flip and plunged into the eyewash...
Robert Amory, Jr. '36, professor of Law, confirmed last night a rumor that he will receive a leave of absence from the University next month to accept a government job in Washington. The new post has also forced him to withdraw as a candidate for a seat to the Republican National Convention...
Taylor speculated that Eisenhower will withdraw from the race within a month. "After all, what would the American people think of him if he were to quit his job in Europe to come back and play politics? He's needed where he is. Why, if he quit the army to run, MacArthur would tear him to pieces. After all, Eisenhower's entire rise was under the Roosevelt and Truman administrations; it's a matter of public record that he only got the job of Chief-of-Staff during the war by telling Roosevelt that he had been a Democrat...
Both Hoover and Taft claim that the Administration has greatly overestimated the threat of Russian expansion. Consequently, Hoover feels that we should withdraw American troops from Europe--leaving the Europeans to build up what ground forces they care to. Taft echoes this view as shown by his consistent voting record against aid to Western Europe since 1948, against the Atlantic Defense Pact, against appropriations to the Voice of America, and his attack on the Point Four Program. In view of the Senator's disastrous underestimation of the German and Japanese intentions in 1940 one might question his present evaluation...
...make its drive effective, the CRIMSON withdraw all advertising for tutoring schools. A week later, the Advocate cut off these advertisements, a source of twelve percent of its revenue shortly afterwards, the Guardian, a social sciences magazine, followed suit...