Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World Economic] Conference to agree that they will not, before the 12th of June nor during the proceedings of the conference, adopt any new initiatives which might increase the many varieties of difficulties now arresting international commerce, subject to the proviso that they retain the right to withdraw from this agreement at any time after July 31, 1933, on giving one month's previous notice to the conference...
...Marshal Nobuyoshi Muto as commander of the Japanese forces in the field. . . . Continued Chinese counter-attacks are causing the Kwantung Army to lose patience." Field Marshal Nobuyoshi Muto lost no time in making a characteristic statement from his headquarters at Changchun: "If the Chinese abandon their challenging attitude and withdraw . . . the Japanese will immediately return to the Great Wall and devote their energies to maintenance of peace . . . but if the Chinese continue their provocations, the Japanese will be compelled to continue the present . . . operations...
When a participant in a serious controversy resorts to cheap clap-trap for arguments and indulges in provocative diatribes, it is about time to wind it up. After the following brief comment I withdraw from the field, leaving it entirely to my opponent, if he chooses to further acquaint the readers of CRIMSON with the latest communistic anti-Gandhi invectives...
...unsecured currency. But it was the proposal to permit the President to devalue the gold dollar that aroused Senator Glass to an eloquent pitch: "With 40% of the entire gold supply of the world, why are we going off the gold standard? Foreign governments could withdraw less than $700,000,000 of our gold, which would leave us an ample fund. . . . The suggestion that we may devalue the gold dollar 50% means national repudiation. It means dishonor! It is im- moral! . . . There never was a necessity for a gold embargo, for making statutory criminals of citizens who may please...
...Also, last week the regents elected as acting president the man who for 20 years had been dean of the College of Pharmacy, stocky genial Hugo August Winkenwerder, 55. For a permanent president the regents will look outside of Washington, and Governor Martin last week persuaded the Legislature to withdraw a proposal to limit the president's salary to $6,000 a year (under President Suzzallo it reached a high...