Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commission on Colonials and Imperialism: That the IUS (1) Ask the U. S. to remove troops from China; and (2) That troops (a) should be withdrawn from countries where they are being held for political purposes, and (b) should refrain from political activity in countries where they are being held for other reasons...
...Refused to enact a House rider to the $1.2 billion Labor Department and Federal Security Agency appropriations for 1946-47. The rider, which would have withdrawn the protection of the Wagner Act from thousands of U.S. packinghouse and agricultural workers, was sent to a joint Senate-House committee for further discussion...
...painting, after a lengthy and highly publicized absence, was found, dust-coated, in the basement of the Boston Art Club and returned to Fogg Museum last week, but Mrs. Jean Bullit Darlington, owner of the art-work and mother of the Harvard Sophomore, has not withdrawn her suit against the University...
...conservative-fundamentalist wing of all denominations "has, in effect, withdrawn from the cultural scene and taken its Christianity with it. . . . Thus, in a kind of cloistered isolation, conservatism has been running on the momentum of the Christian tradition, rather than on the perennial dynamics of the Christian faith." It has failed to recognize "the challenge to make Christianity intelligible and potent in the present historical situation...
...French Davis Cupsters were overconfident and undertrained. In Paris last week, they squeezed past Yugoslavia in the first two matches, then lost the rest. France's No. 2 star, Pierre Pellizza, looked so pitiful that he was withdrawn midway through the competition. The No. 1 star, balding, 6 ft. 7 in. Yvon Petra got too tired in his final match to run after the ball. The score: Yugoslavia 3, France...