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Word: withdrawals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with his Federal Anti-Lynching Bill which had already passed the House. So fearful of a last-minute filibuster by Southern Senators was Leader Barkley that he promised to make anti-lynching the first order of business after the Farm Bill in the next session, if Senator Wagner would withdraw it at that time. As the special session was sitting last week both Leader Barkley and slow-footed Lieutenant King had ample cause for regret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Lynch Logorrhea | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...more light-practice for the Varsity in the students this afternoon, and then it is just a matter of impatient waiting for the season's climax. After a light workout the squad will withdraw to the quiet atmosphere of Middlesex School until a few hours before game time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARLOWMEN LEAVE FOR PRE-GAME REST AT CONCORD SCHOOL | 11/19/1937 | See Source »

...thousand of the foreigners now fighting in Spain shall withdraw from the Rightist and also from the Leftist side; 2) After these "token withdrawals," commissioners dispatched by the Non-intervention Committee shall ascertain with fair accuracy the numbers of interventionists, this with a view to the ultimate withdrawal of all in "progressive and proportional" stages; 3) When the Nonintervention Committee finds these large-scale withdrawals have reached a "substantial" total, the Great Powers are to grant full belligerent rights to the Rightist Government and to the Leftist Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Scheme | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...equally deadly spanner, although loudly blaming Moscow for having already caused the wreck, by declaring that Italy could not promise to be bound by findings of the Committee as to the number of volunteers on each side in Spain and consequently as to the proportion in which they should withdraw. Leftist sympathizers were already claiming that volunteers with the Rightists outnumber 4-to-1 volunteers with the Leftists, clamoring that therefore four must quit the Rightists for every one who quits the Leftists. Berlin threw in a small pair of pliers to the effect that both Adolf Hitler and Benito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Scheme | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...Scotland, resumed the helm at No. 10 Downing Street. Just before he set foot in Whitehall it was suddenly announced by British officials not at Geneva but in London that Britain and France would now take a step which Germany and Italy took a few months ago, that is, withdraw their warships from the Non-Intervention Patrol which has been supposed to keep munitions from entering Spain, although actually it has been a farce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Peace and Pirates | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

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