Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arthur Vandenberg scored a personal triumph. For five months he had bottled up in his Senate Foreign Relations Committee Harry Truman's nomination of onetime Attorney General Francis Biddle as U.S. representative on the U.N.'s Social and Economic Council. Biddle finally requested that his name be withdrawn. The President's prompt second choice: Willard L. Thorp, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, who had Vandenberg's warm backing...
...million Americans faced the greatest opportunity of their history. Strangely enough, it was of Russia's making, though the U.S. had forced the issue. In Paris, Russia refused to participate in Secretary of State George Marshall's plan for the revival of Europe (see INTERNATIONAL). Russia had withdrawn into a new kind of isolation. The U.S. opportunity was to set Western Europe back on its economic feet, unhampered by Russian participation, bickering, delay and vetoes...
Following a brief adventure as one of the Naval School "ships" during World War I, Mem's usefulness gradually declined after it was released from dining hall service in 1924. Since then the Great Hall hodgepodge of ornate tapestries, stained glass windows, portraits, and busts, has withdrawn into brooding silence broken only by an occasional dance or banquet. Students have come to look upon the hall as a den of horror, where they suffer either from the crush of registration or the torture of exams. Only rarely are the riotous days of the past recalled. Mem most recently shuddered from...
...speech guaranteed by the state and federal Constitutions." At week's end, as citizens flocked to the doctors' support, there was ominous talk of retaliation. The Hartford Ministers' Association and the Plainville Council of Churches passed resolutions suggesting that state aid and tax exemption be withdrawn from Roman Catholic hospitals...
...History offers each of its great challenges only once. After only one failure, or one refusal, the offer is withdrawn. Babylon, Athens, Thebes, Alexandria, Madrid, Vienna sink back, and do not rise again. ... It may be that the darkness of great tragedy will bring to a quick end the short, bright history of the United States -for there is enough truth in the dream of the New World to make the action tragic. The United States is called before the rehearsals are completed. Its strength and promise have not been matured by the wisdom of time and suffering...