Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yacht The Liberty, once the property of the not quite so eccentric Joseph Pulitzer, an elaborate electric sign to blaze across the harbors of Britain: DOWN WITH MACDONALD THE TRAITOR! Only with the greatest of difficulty could the manager of her paper, the famed Saturday Review, persuade her to withdraw the most libelous portions of a personal attack she had written on Prime Minister MacDonald. Last week Lady Houston topped her withdrawn offer with a characteristic wire to her old enemy the Prime Minister...
Only six weeks ago Dr. Wolman, outdone with the Labor Board's support of the A. F. of L. system, resigned. Only strong pleas from General Johnson got him to withdraw his resignation. Labor man he is but he does not rub shoulders with the labor men whom open-shop industrialists most dislike and distrust. Nor is he a believer in the regimentation of industry. In Washington he has been an anomaly, for he is firmly pro-labor and equally firm in believing that labor fares best under a sound capitalistic system...
...Thanksgiving dinner, a python crawls halfway into the pig's pen, eats the pig, finds itself trapped. To catch langur monkeys, he makes a one-inch hole in a coconut shell, puts rice inside. The monkey can reach into the shell but can not withdraw its closed paw with the rice...
...Hawes-Cutting Act for Philippine independence. That law lapsed Jan. 17 after the Philippine Legislature declined to accept its provisions. President Roosevelt would give the Filipinos until October to accept a second offer of freedom. Only important change suggested by the President was that the U. S. agree to withdraw from its Philippine Army bases, and negotiate a settlement about Naval bases...
...probably cooked." There is ample cause, in the light of the past two days, to regard such a statement as a bit hasty. It is true that Governor Ely and Commissioner Dillon may find it a trifle embarrassing to reinstate the Norfolk Head into good favor and to withdraw charges which once rang so auspiciously in streamer heads. But there is also this to consider. The legion of Mr. Gill's friends, even before the investigation, was very large. It has been treated to an inspiring spectacle; it has seen an honest and valuable man brutally and inexcusably mauled...