Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Declaring that as long as members of university faculties continue to be motivated by the passionate search for truth, it is certain that the public will not withdraw its support, President Conant said in a welcome to students of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at a meeting held in the faculty room of University Hall last night...
...companies not long before they crashed early in 1933. That stirred New York's hulking Congressman Hamilton Fish Jr. to one of his typically brash outbursts, this time on Banker Hecht and a "rotten mess." Suspicious of any & all banks at the time, depositors outside New Orleans began to withdraw deposits. Banker Hecht soon had a first-class run on his hands, which was not stopped until he called in Huey Pierce Long...
...Skipper Vanderbilt outmaneuvered Skipper Adams at the start to win by three minutes over the international course. A squall from the north when the boats were running before a brisk southerly breeze blew Yankee's parachute spinnaker flat against her mast, broke the jumper strut and forced her to withdraw from the third race. After the fourth, which Rainbow won in a fresh breeze over a 30-mi. triangle, by two-and-a-half minutes, observers were prepared to hear that Rainbow had been selected. Instead, they learned that another race had been scheduled for the next...
...Square made additional news last week when they announced plans to mortgage the house for $600,000 in order to clean it up, modernize its equipment. Electrical engineers from New York's new Fire Prevention Bureau had found the ancient lighting system so dangerous that they threatened to withdraw the building's permit unless repairs were made. News of the heavy mortgage stilled all talk of a new Metropolitan Opera House...
...work by a Polish artist should be so prominently displayed in a U. S. collection supposedly owned entirely by the Whitney Museum of American Art. Last week, in London, Mrs. Juliana R. Force, the Whitney Museum's energetic director, thought it was so strange that she threatened to withdraw, crate and ship back to the U. S. the entire Whitney exhibit (101 pictures) unless the unauthorized Davies portrait was removed...