Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another form of secondary picketing upon which the courts have not yet had a final say is American Newspaper Guild pressure on advertisers to withdraw their patronage from struck newspapers. In its current strike against the Brooklyn Eagle the Guild found this technique highly effective. Legally, the matter is a draw with one judge condoning and one condemning...
...perennial nominee, withdrew his candidacy in all constituencies except the Stalin district of Moscow. "Who will feel like competing with Comrade Stalin [in the Stalin district]?" asked Komsomolskaya Pravda, organ of the Communist Youth, and its editor "guessed" that all the other candidates in the Stalin district "probably" would withdraw. They did. Nearly two years ago Joseph Stalin told an interviewer: "You are puzzled by the fact that only one party will come forward at the elections. You think there will be no election contests. But there will be, and I foresee very lively election campaigns!" This year, however, Candidate...
...Marine officers had to do a good deal of bellowing and bristling to get to the Japanese commander. "You are practically invading the United States defense sector!" yelled monolingual Leatherneck Price, thus whooping the word "INVASION!" into a thousand scareheads. "You must withdraw immediately...
Claiming he had not known any Japanese troops were trespassing on U. S.-guarded ground, the Japanese commander promptly ordered their withdrawal. Same night a representative of the victorious Japanese commander in chief at Shanghai, long-eared General Iwane Matsui, visited the scene of the bombing, and there under the dim glow of street lights promised the Settlement police commissioner, British Major F. W. Gerrard, to withdraw at once all Japanese forces from the 30 square block area, leave further investigation of the bomb outrage to the Shanghai Municipality...
...objection was enough to kill Sam Rayburn's request which, by the complex parliamentary conventions of the House, was no 'longer before that erratic body later when Illinois' Church-having created enough confusion for one day-was ready to withdraw it. Consequence was that the House of Representatives last week, for the first time in U. S. history, met on Thanksgiving...