Word: withdraws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...petition by members of the Freshman Class, stating that they would withdraw their original petition asking for a longer breakfast hour because they felt it was endangering the student waiters' jobs, was posted in the Harvard Union yesterday. Although the petition was not put up until 3 o'clock, by 8.30 o'clock it had been signed by about 100 members of the Class of 1937. Sometime around 9 o'clock it disappeared and it has not been recovered...
...world of diplomatic notes, a field long held by the flowery evasion. First Russia and Japan called each other a liar with an admirable, if startling, baldness. Now comes President Roosevelt's plain answer to a long, decorous request from the President of Haiti that the United States withdraw its fiscal control over that country. While expressing a kindly word for the record of the Haitian government, nonetheless our own F. D. could not find it in his heart to grant this request. And why not? Because, as the Transcript neatly paraphrases it, "of the injustice Mr. Roosevelt feels such...
Pariah? Up to last week Uruguay was the only nation in North. Central or South America to have diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. Canadian Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett, rich and pious, is a thoroughgoing Soviet-ophobe. Mexico extended recognition only to withdraw it with loud complaints of Communist propaganda. But Soviet Russia-one-sixth of the world-is no pariah. Her government has now been recognized by Afghanistan, Austria, China, Danzig, Denmark. Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain (none of the British dominions has extended recognition), Greece, Iceland, Irak, Italy, Japan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Latvia, Lithuania...
...final audacity of the week, II Duce started rumors that he plans to withdraw Italy from the League of Nations by ordering the Grand Council of the Fascist Party to meet Dec. 5 "to make an important decision on Italy's relations with the League...
...hummed at an announcement by President of the Board of Trade Walter Runciman that His Majesty's Government in Great Britain will withdraw on Dec. 7 from President Roosevelt's once-famed "Tariff Truce" (TIME...