Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amid charges that the College had employed "intimidation" and "coercion" in H.U.E.R.A.'s behalf, the balloting was hold, and H.U.E.R.A. won handily in all but the dining hall unit. Following this bad defeat, the A. F. of L. decided to withdraw the charges it had preferred with the Labor Board charging the University with "unfair labor practices...
Last week the Russians apparently felt that the moment was near. Colonel General Terenty F. Shtykov, chief Russian delegate to the Joint Commission, said that if U.S. forces would withdraw from their zone at the beginning of 1948, "then the Soviet troops will be ready to leave Korea simultaneously." Translated from the Russian, this was another way of saying: Let us both leave the lamb to the butcher. Cried Moderate Leader Kim Kyh Sik, chairman of the Korean Interim Legislative Assembly: if the U.S. withdrew, "North Koreans would sweep down like red lava, cover South Korea and end Korea...
...Annamites. What the Annamites told Bao was enough to sober him. To the people of Viet Nam he issued a grave proclamation: "To avoid bloodshed, I renounced the throne of my ancestors. Since you wished to entrust the destiny of the country to new rulers, I decided to withdraw. Now in spite of the dictatorship which forbids freedom of speech, you have revealed to me the whole picture of your miseries. In your distress you came to me. Answering your appeal, I accept the mission which you entrust to me and I am ready to contact the French authorities...
Jones had tried to register some oil royalty trust certificates. When SEC objected to his registration statement, Jones tried to withdraw it. SEC refused to let him, so he fought the case up to the U.S. Supreme Court and won (TIME, April 13, 1936). Shortly after, Jones was indicted for mail fraud. He won again, although the money he spent fighting the two cases drove his company into bankruptcy, left him with a $700,000 debt. Since then, as president of Louisiana's tiny Sugarfield Oil Co. (production: 725 barrels daily), he has been trying to recoup...
...Only freshmen now talk as if the anti-Christian position were self-evident. . . . [Yet] we must remember that widespread and lively interest in the subject is precisely what we call a fashion. . . . Whatever . . . mere fashion has given us, mere fashion will presently withdraw. The real conversions will remain, but nothing else will. In that sense we may be on the brink of a real, permanent Christian revival: but it will work slowly and obscurely in small groups. The present sunshine ... is certainly temporary. The grain must be got into the barn before the wet weather comes...