Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhood will not come until Il Duce feels able to withdraw his personal guidance from the manifold and multiplex organs of state he is creating. Today they are in virile flux. The goal is to create government by men responsible not primarily to geographical constituencies or obedient to the results of counting noses; but government by men drawn from the ranks of production representing primarily agriculture and industry, labor and capital, trade and the professions. In the General Assembly sat last week not "the Deputy from Padua" but, in effect, "the Deputy from Wheat," "the Deputy from Mercury, " "the Deputy...
House dinners effect little more than simplification of the menu and crowding of the dining halls. From the undergraduate point of view they are irksome formalities which become, after long repetition, insignificant. The faculty residents converse in splendid isolation over their roast prime ribs of beef and afterwards withdraw to the shelter of the senior common room. Sometimes students are included at the high table, but the resulting haphazard intercourse with the staff is of minor worth. Often the guest of the evening discusses some question before an unrestricted audience, but student attendance is usually meager...
...League. A spokesman for the Club has made the following statement concerning the stand it has taken: "The Liberal Club does not wish to adhere to a group whose decisions are not in accord with those liberal principles held by its delegates. Therefore, our delegates have been instructed to withdraw from the conference if, in their opinion, the resolutions passed by it contravene their own liberal principles. Indications have it, however, that the meeting will be guided by those dictates of common sense and reason which have in the past guided the thinking college student...
Berlin, Nov. 8--American automobile firms prepared to withdraw entirely from the German field today following the collapse of separate negotiations with the government...
...Pressure from Britain, France and Italy finally forced Poland to withdraw its suggestion that all national minority treaties growing from the War be scrapped for a new universal minority treaty...