Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only way to force the bill on to the floor was for 145 Representatives to sign a petition to withdraw it from the Ways & Means Committee. The petition was started, kept in a black notebook on the desk of the journal clerk. Day after day Representatives sidled up to the desk and signed. When 113 names were on the list Democratic Leader Byrns gloomily prophesied the total number would be reached. When the list neared 140 Speaker Rainey, who cannot control the House as Speakers Longworth and Garner used to do, paid a hurried visit to the White House, returned...
Asked whether Administration followers would be made to withdraw their signatures, the Speaker grumbled helplessly: "They can do as they damn please...
...same treatment as any other foreign nation. Imperialists in this country will decry the losing of our Far East naval bases. They will claim that such action makes a possible Japanese attack probable. While there is some truth in their fears, the effect on the whole would be to withdraw the United States from the tangled intrigues of Oriental diplomacy, at once lessening the chance of war. As for the moral trembling lest any other green-eyed dragon should possess herself of these territories, there is the material satisfaction that if they attempted to do so, the United States would...
...other hand there is a percentage of students who always have to be going against things which are required of them: they can't live happily under definite rules. The fact that this type are allowed to withdraw from the Houses removes a lot of comment which would arise otherwise against any steadfast regulation requiring all men to live in Houses...
...evening news after 9 P. M. The N.B.C. and the C.B.S. could not see their way clear to the adoption of such a plan and so met the proposal with the establishment of their own news services. These will be put into operation next Thursday and the newspapers will withdraw their announcers from...