Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hampshire's Bridges, like Nebraska's Burke, received a check for his endorsement, but later exercised his privilege to withdraw from the arrangement...
When, after five hours, the Senate recessed for an unhappy weekend, an amazing total of 54 Senators had taken part in the afternoon's debate. Still adamant was Senator Byrnes, having refused to withdraw his amendment in favor of a separate resolution when he heard that Senators Guffey and Neely were planning to amend such a resolution with condemnation of another species of mass lawbreaking: lynching. And of all those who had raised their voices in defense of sit-downers, not one had championed the Sit-Down as admirable or lawful...
Meantime, the Dearborn individualist last week decided to withdraw further into his vast fortress of independence. The Akron Beacon Journal revealed that Ford Motor Co. had ordered $1,000,000 worth of tire-making machinery for a new Ford tire plant at the River Rouge works outside Detroit. Moreover, said the Beacon Journal, that order was only "one of many...
Simpson holy deadlocked, and on Dec. 10 His Majesty decided to abdicate. On Dec. 14 the knob-headed little intervener moved to withdraw his intervention. He was in court last week to explain his series of actions - so suggestive of a successful effort to bamboozle an overwrought man in love, especially since knob-head Stephenson plies the trade of managing clerk in a firm of London lawyers whose important clients unquestionably sided with the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin...
Tuesday marked the useful end of the Spanish Non-Intervention Committee. At London Ambassador Grandi read the death sentence--that Italy will not withdraw her troops while the war continues, and Premier Mussolini threw the switch in a statement at Rome instructing editors that Italy will not permit the government forces to prevail. Such an attitude by one country makes impossible any attempt to check effectively the support others are giving to the war. Once it was hoped that the bloodshed in Spain could be lessened by the withdrawal of foreign soldiers, a hope now almost dead. There remains...