Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purpose of these sessions is to allow executives to withdraw from day-to-day administration, to investigate special problems and to secure a broader perspective of their field...
...Uncle Charles found out that Niece Lucille's reading list in a social science course included books about Soviet Russia in addition to such standbys as Herbert Hoover's American Individualism and Walter Lippmann's A Preface to Morals. Upshot was he decided to withdraw her from school, charged she had been "insidiously exposed" to Communist "influences." A great press uproar and a State Senate investigation followed, but nothing much besides froth came of the whole thing...
...Hearth"-but that had not been vouchsafed him. On the other hand he had written some books that he knew were good: "My Daemon was with me in the Jungle Books, Kim, and both Puck books, and good care I took to walk delicately, lest he should withdraw." Friends will add to that list; critics may subtract. In Something of Myself, Kipling's Daemon was not with him; he had long vanished over the horizon. But Kipling still followed, marching as to war, helmeted with the crescent of Islam, armored in Congregationalist thunder, proudly knapsacked with the White...
...obtuse legal advice." Last week not one but two of the biggest utility holding companies in the U. S.- North American Co. with assets of $891,000,000, American Water Works & Electric Co. with $434,000,000-notified their stockholders that it would be in their best interests to withdraw all litigation against the Utility Act and to register with SEC forthwith. Beaming at this unexpected pleasure. Chairman Landis read to newshawks a letter of congratulation he had written North American's President James F. Fogarty, acknowledging the utilities' right to challenge any SEC action once they were...
...threatened an appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court. Fearing further delay would cause the selection of another courthouse site, property owners of the proposed site on Oak Street hired Lawyer Henry Spotswood Conrad, agreed to pay him a $1,000 fee and $250 expenses to get Lawyer Scarritt to withdraw his suit. After numerous conferences Lawyer Conrad told his clients the real-estate firm would not retreat unless paid $35,350. They agreed and Lawyer Conrad drew up a contract making the deal with McCoy Land Co. The property was sold without interference...