Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...epilog to the Red River war occurred when the toll bridge receivers secured a belated Federal injunction against Governor Murray's military blockade of their property. Defying the Federal Court and refusing to withdraw his troops, Governor Murray packed an old-fashioned horse pistol in his bag, set out for Durant to take personal charge of his siege. When he arrived, he found the free bridge al ready open. He closed it for five minutes and then officially reopened it in the name of Oklahoma. After drilling his army of 32 guardsmen, posing for photographs, eating a salt pork...
...ning suggested. They closed the stock exchanges and for two days, to avert headlong panic, all the banks. They selected a Federal Commissioner of Finance or "Money Tsar" before reopening the banks partially, to pay salaries, wages and taxes only. (Unemployed persons not on the dole were allowed to withdraw $12 each.) A rousing, purely Hindenburg proclamation called upon the people to be calm, be "sporting...
...child has broken a Federal law, his local community has failed in its responsibility. This duty is local, not national. The community has facilities with which to perform it. The nation has not. It is desirable from every point of view that the Federal Government be empowered to withdraw from the prosecution of juveniles where such withdrawals will be in the public interest and to leave the treatment of their cases to the juvenile courts or other welfare agencies of their own states. The Commission recommends the passage of legislation which will have this effect...
...went over to the Independistas. From a Manila hospital bed where he lay with a broken leg, Aguinaldo revealed to spry young Senator Arthur Robinson Robinson of Indiana his change of heart. The Aguinaldo plan: 1) immediate freedom for the islands; 2) five years for the U. S. to withdraw all its trappings of sovereignty; 3) ten years more of free trade between the U. S. and the Philippines. The ex-insurrecto predicted that independence would not sink the islands economically, that sheer native gratitude for freedom would win U. S. capital better than it now gets. Aguinaldo wants...
Said he: "We [Finns] cannot withdraw from the [lumber] market. We must fight for it. But people say that we cannot compete with Russia owing to the economic methods employed by that country. We must, however, do so, and we can do so with hopes of success. We have many technical advantages. Our forests are better situated, our waterways are better and shorter, our men and horses are better provisioned, and the skill and efficiency of our workers are higher than those of the conscripted workers of Russia...