Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There was nothing there with which to beat a cat," suggesting that the King of Kings had made a fuss about nothing. The poor pun was enough to make Reza Shah Pahlavi last week recall to Teheran his Minister to France. Mirza Abolghas-sem Nadjm "for an explanation," and withdraw his promise to lend Iranian art objects to the coming Paris International Exhibition which opens...
...bargaining agency for G. M. workers. General Knudsen backed down on his earlier insistence that all G. M. bargaining must be by individual plants, offered to treat with the Union nationally on matters of "general corporate policy." But he would not do that unless U. A. W. should first withdraw its sit-downers, whom he denounced as lawless trespassers, from the Corporation's plants. With the strikers in possession, G. M. could not send strikebreakers into its plants or remove vital dies and machinery for use in other plants without provoking violence. Hugging this advantage, General Martin refused...
...hearings on the plan, Harry Sinclair made one of his stage gestures. In court rose his attorney, onetime Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley, to say that since some of the creditors appeared to think that Mr. Sinclair wanted to dominate the new company, Mr. Sinclair was willing to withdraw from rehabilitated Richfield's board of directors. Expostulating gently, the re-organization committee hastened to assure Mr. Hurley that it very much wanted Mr. Sinclair on the board. Other board members will be President F. R. Coates and Vice President W. Alton ("Pete") Jones of Cities Service, President...
...Baron Brownlow, close friend of Edward VIII: "The following is an official statement. . . . Mrs. Simpson, throughout the last few weeks, invariably has wished to avoid any action which would hurt or damage His Majesty or the Throne. . . . She is willing, if such action would solve the problem, to withdraw forthwith from the situation." In the London circle of Mrs. Lucy Baldwin this statement is called "impudent and melodramatic...
Kawagoe to a tete-a-tete, told him in good round terms that the Japanese Government must withdraw its marines from the Shantung seaport, release its Chinese prisoners, restore the stolen Chinese documents. When opportunist Ambassador Kawagoe suggested that instead he and Foreign Minister Chang should discuss "broad Sino-Japanese problems." General Chang frostily replied: "Continuance of negotiations are useless while Japanese forces remain ashore in Tsingtao and while your Government continues to back the Mongols and Manchukuoans attacking Suiyuan" (TIME...