Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Into Manhattan's Mecca Temple last week crowded several thousand New York City Republicans to pick a party candidate for Mayor. There was only one avowed candidate-Congressman Fiorella H. La Guardia-after Congresswoman Ruth Pratt had withdrawn because she would not "scramble for votes." So, as Hobson's choice, the convention designated Mr. La Guardia to make the race against Tammany's James John Walker...
...month ago Buyers Hall & Lavarre came to disagreement over control of their journals. A split followed, Buyer Hall asking for an injunction against his one-time partner to restrain him from obtaining operating control. Buyer Lavarre threatened to "disclose" all negotiations with the power company unless the injunction was withdrawn. The injunction still pending, amicable settlement of Hall-Lavarre differences had not been made last week...
TIME'S claim to be the first publication to offer perpetual subscriptions must be either withdrawn or considerably limited by qualifications. Since 1920 or earlier, the New England Historic Genealogical Society has offered a perpetual subscription to its quarterly magazine, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, in connection with a perpetual membership in the Society, for $300. More recently, the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society has offered perpetual subscriptions to its quarterly magazine with or without perpetual membership in the Society...
...rival Richmond News-Leader, had gone to North Carolina to buy a newspaper for I. P. & P. Publisher Bryan prepared a $500,000 libel suit against the Times-Dispatch (TIME, May 27). Last week the Times-Dispatch expressed public regrets for the statement. The Bryan suit was withdrawn...
...situation in regard to the H. A. A. surplus has not been much clarified by the recent statement from University Hall that the Corporation has "no intention of acquiring a ten million dollar endowment fund for the support of athletics." Out of a host of possibilities one is withdrawn. The present surplus may be allowed to accumulate to an indefinite size and for no purpose at all as far as one can tell from the Delphic utterance of the authorities...