Word: withdrawing
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Edwin W. Pauley, California oilman and grain speculator, treasurer of the party (1942-45), whom Truman once nominated for Under Secretary of the Navy, an appointment he had to withdraw because of senatorial opposition. Pauley raised a lot of West Coast oil money. Seldom seen around the White House any more, he keeps in touch by long-distance telephone...
...Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. 25 professors were forced to withdraw from activity, in the Wallace party last year, according to allegations made by the the Progressive Party. The Wallace organization also charged that Professor Curtis D. MacDougatt, its candidate for the Senate, was warned that he would be forced to resign unless he retired from the campaign...
Since the neighbors didn't object to the nature of Conrad's work, William L. Galvin, chairman of the Board of Appeals, suggested that if Conrad should drop his petition, he would be allowed to work unmolested. Conrad wanted security, however, and refused to withdraw his petition...
...agree to an effective Russian veto in Germany. The U.S. and Britain would not object to a unified Germany with a central government; but they would insist that the West German constitution be used as the framework for this future German regime. The U.S. would almost certainly refuse to withdraw its occupation troops; the U.S. token force in Germany gives Western Europeans an indispensable sense of security from Russian attack...
After a year of investigation, and over an hour of vigorous debate, the Council voted to withdraw financial support from the yearbook after this year...