Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposal for joint exams was first made by the Radcliffe administration last spring. It was being considered by the Faculty Committee on Educational Policy when Radcliffe decided to withdraw the plan...
...Secondary Source." Last week, the three college teachers were summoned to Father Keleher's office. Did they withdraw their charge that the Jesuits were teaching heresy? No? Then, said President Keleher, they were fired...
Although the Christian Democratic Party has many members in the industrial Ruhr area, where there is a more liberal attitude, it must maintain its strength in conservative Bavaria. This agricultural state has no need or wish for possible government interference in its economy and has threatened to withdraw from any strong state that may be established. In Bavaria the Christian Democrats are joined in a weak coalition with far-right Christian Socialists; any concession at Bonn by the C.D.'s would destroy the uneasy union, and lose for them this second most populous of the eleven West German States...
Persia, from which the U.N. had forced Russia to withdraw her troops in 1947, seemed to be selected as the main area of Soviet pressure. This week from Teheran came reports that Soviet tanks and armored cars had rolled over the border into Azerbaijan and opened fire on a Persian outpost at Qanli Boulaq near the Caspian Sea. Two Persians were killed. The border incident was the most serious of six such attacks on Persia in the past few months...
Senate 5 was defeated on the House floor once before, when the body voted on March 15 to accept a committee recommendation to withdraw the measure. Only expert parliamentary maneuvering by Senator Melley saved the bill in the upper chamber. However, by delaying renewal of the discussion until this week, the House has given Toomey time to strengthen his forces, and another vote may be close. Though the "Citizens Committee" has only one known member, Miss Spencer, and is not registered officially as a lobby at the State House, it may be able to change many votes during this well...