Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...investment bankers have insufficient money to do the job. To get such funds, and to keep the Federal Government from increasing its direct financing, he suggested that preferred stock in regional investment banking houses be sold to the RFC. As the capital markets opened up, "the Government could gradually withdraw from much of the banking it is now doing, and security underwriters could retire stock held by the RFC. . . . The time will come again when the emphasis is shifted from riskless refundings to creative finance...
...details were less appalling. In 1940, under authority of the act, President Roosevelt froze the U.S. funds of all citizens of nations invaded by the Axis. Chase's alleged offense was that it had allowed a refugee Dutch diamond merchant named Leonard J. A. Smit* to withdraw $264,000 from his accounts. Smit, it was charged, had then proceeded to buy industrial diamonds for sale to Japan and Axis-dominated countries...
...London last week the cautious Sunday Observer reported informal Russian offers to withdraw to the Curzon Line, perhaps even enough farther in the south to restore historic Lwow to Poland. Such an offer, if actually made, might finally bring peace in place of truce where great armies now battle...
...Ships fired almost simultaneously and then the Jap seemed to withdraw...
...stationed. Our game was suddenly broken up by some 40 highly indignant British sailors. Their nearby soccer game had been broken up by the police for lack of permit to use the field. . . . Tension was critical between all of us. ... In the interests of international harmony we decided to withdraw...