Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture* but a mixed group of interests to contend with: Chile and several other nations whose political sympathies are with Fascism; Mexico whose sympathies are with Communism; Argentina who wants to support the League of Nations; Guatemala, the Dominican Republic and several small nations who would like to withdraw from the League of Nations to form an American League. Almost anything might come out of this combination because the agenda are broad enough to cover two continents. They permit the consideration of creating an Inter-American Court of Justice, of "measures tending toward closer association of the American Republics...
...assets foot up to a mere $1,200,000, three-fourths of which is represented by its present stake in the Barco game. An investing company, it has only one full-time official Secretary & Treasurer Charles Ferris French. This autumn he was suddenly presented with an opportunity to withdraw gracefully from the Barco game with winnings of more than 100% on the ante. An undisclosed group offered $2,000,000 for the Barco interest. Informed of the facts last week, the stock-holders accepted with alacrity. With that $2,000,000 Carib will look for another game more suited...
...horses that are at best ethereal. The strangest part of the mechanics, however, is the behavior of the property men. They are always very much in evidence. Slouching all over the stage, they evince only occasionally a condescending interest in the anties of the performers. In general, they withdraw their attention from their newspapers only to sling a cushion to the boards in the nick of time to soften the fall of some suppliant's knees...
...Hearst papers, the D.A.R., and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, who supported the law in 1935 when it was hotly contested as a bill before the court. The strength of the oath law supporters suffered greatly when the American Legion voted at its June convention this year to withdraw its sponsorship of the bill...
...That the Southern Conference be urged to adopt a fundamental code to embody the freshman rule, the migratory rule, the professional rule, and a rule providing for the maintenance of the present entrance and scholastic rquirements; or otherwise, that the University of Virginia withdraw from the Southern Conference and adopt such a code...