Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After that Ralston had few ambitions. He virtually turned down a nomination for President last year, as the deadlock between McAdoo and Smith broke up in the Democratic Convention. He ordered his name withdrawn as votes began to pile...
...WISCONSIN v. THE STATE OF ILLINOIS and the CHICAGO SANITARY DISTRICT. In this case the four appellants question the right of the War Department to permit Chicago to withdraw water from Lake Michigan for sanitary purposes. Already the War Department has taken steps to reduce the amount of water withdrawn by the Chicago Sanitary District (TIME, July 20), but if the four states maintain their contention, the restriction will be even more rigid...
...well. Moore replaced Putnam at quarterback and Mills substituted for McGehee at halfback. In the 1929 line, Hutchinson, right guard, was the only man to play the entire game. O'Connell and Prior, ends, Robinson and Harrison, tackles, Wolse, guard, and Kernan, center, the original forward defense, were all withdrawn during the game to make way for the reserves...
...adding 3,500,000,000 francs ($175,000,000) to taxes. He then proposed a sinking fund for the liquidation of War expenses. This sinking fund would: 1) complete reconstruction; 2) pay off France's War debts. It would be fed: 1) by German reparations (which are withdrawn from ordinary receipts) ; 2) by recovery of excessive payments made to various individuals in the devastated regions for reconstruction; 3) by any surplus from the ordinary budget...
This codicil, or "literary testament," as the Post called it, was submitted to the Probate Court but withdrawn after a "high personage in the political world" had advised that no considerations of whatever sort should be allowed to withdraw the veil of secrecy enshrouding the testament...