Word: withdraws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frenchmen know that there are too many Anglo-Saxons in France. So many that aristocratic Parisians are obliged to withdraw for privacy to the left bank of the Seine. So many that a Frenchman simply cannot escape them on the Riviera. Recently rich Louis Loucheur, not long since Minister of Finance (TIME, Dec. 7), decided to provide an asylum for Frenchmen in France, a retreat where open English vowels and nasal Yankee twangs would not affront the Latin...
Alarums. U. S. administration news organs thought differently. They thought that the Secretary of State had threatened to do something (perhaps withdraw recognition from the Calles Government, perhaps lift the embargo which prevents arms being shipped into Mexico over the U. S. border) if the Calles Administration does not come to heel in the matter of its land and oil laws (TIME, Jan. 25) which the Coolidge Administration deems retroactive and confiscatory. As a matter of fact Secretary Kellogg had spoken as if the Administration might do something, but everyone knew that Congress was in no mood to fight...
...book and caused the arrest on a charge of fraud of one Hesketh Pearson who sold them the manuscript and assured them that it is by Sir Rennel Rodd, onetime (1908-1919) British Ambassador to Italy, who has denied writing it. Last week the Manhattan publishers refused to withdraw the U. S. edition which is proving a "best seller...
...return for these allowances, Colonel Thompson will probably urge the U. S. to demand: 1) That the Filipinos postpone their independence dreams indefinitely; 2) That they withdraw their government in Manila from private business enterprises; 3) That they amend their land laws so as to aid in the large scale development of the rubber industry (in such event, the U. S. Congress will not interfere with these laws); 4) That stronger U. S. control be exercised in the Moro districts to prevent Filipino high-handed rule...
...Houses. By the last will and testament of the late Seth Buddhimal, wealthy and pious banker of Sihora, Central India, there has been left, it was announced last week, $100,000 to build and endow in perpetuity three rest houses into which insects may withdraw from the world. Poor travelers will be allowed to sleep overnight in these bug rest houses, will even be paid a small sum for doing so, as long as they lie still and kill no bugs. Should a sleeper kill a bug, even by accidentally rolling over, he will be ejected from the bug house...