Word: withdraws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said that their troops were sound asleep at six a. m. in Fort Vanguardia on unquestionably Bolivian territory when they were stealthily attacked by Paraguayan soldiers. The diplomats of Paraguay said that their troops had discovered a Bolivian fort on unquestionably Paraguayan territory, had requested the Bolivian garrison to withdraw and had been fired upon for their pains. At approximately the same hour last week both governments claimed that their victorious forces held the fort...
...Radicals. They pounced upon a budgetary bill which would permit the Government at its discretion to restore certain properties confiscated from the clergy under the great Secularization Bill of 1905, whereby the French church and state were separated. Loud demands were soon current that M. Poincaré must withdraw this measure, or the Socialists and Radicals would order the Ministers representing them in the present Sacred Union Cabinet (TIME. Aug. 2, 1926) to withdraw. Stung to action the Prime Minister confronted critics with an adroit blend of suavity and truculence...
...would be automatically dropped unless I signed up again as in the two previous years, I merely ignored the Union. But the Union did not ignore me. It seems that when I first joined I made an agreement that I would notify the Union of my intention to withdraw before October tenth of the year of my resignation as a member. Hence, when I received a membership card in the mail on October eleventh I was liable for the dues for the current year-some ten dollars-which I was in no way anticipating...
...remained to be rendered after arguments heard last spring. Three of these cases were notable-1) The Great Lakes States v. the City of Chicago. Lawyer Charles Evans Hughes, a onetime member of the Supreme Court, had been appointed special master. His report upheld Chicago's right to withdraw water from Lake Michigan, at the expense of other lake levels, for its sewage canal. 2) A test case about the Ku Klux Klan-whether it is constitutional for States to require secret organizations to put their secrets on file. 3) A test case about Shriners-whether persons founding fraternal...
Chairman Work of the Republican National Committee protested: "If Governor Smith values the truth, he should withdraw the reckless innuendo that the Republican National Committee engages in religious propaganda...