Word: withdraws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sending an acid note to Chiang Kai-shek complaining bitterly at the piffling resistance to Japan put up by Chang Hsueh-liang, the Young Marshal. Sick, discouraged, disgraced, the Young Marshal offered his resignation too (TIME, Aug. 15). All the pleading of Chiang Kai-shek could not make him withdraw it last week...
...Pacific Coast last week Assistant Secretary Davison declared himself a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of New York. His announcement was in the form of a telegram to James L. Downey, State Committeeman of Long Island's swank Nassau County, thanking him for his offer to withdraw as candidate for Attorney General in order to allow Mr. Davison, also of Nassau, a chance to head the ticket...
...Canada and Australia, having introduced a general resolution in which the Conference ''denounced the trading methods of Russia" were persuaded to withdraw the resolution which was referred to a special subcommittee organized on the spot...
Once the picture of men ringing the Pole like wolves around a campfire excited romantic scientists. But as the Second Polar Year loomed, economy's pinch made many a nation withdraw its cooperation. Niggling legislatures reduced expense accounts. When at last the Polar Year got under way it had become a Terrestrial Year. Instead of ringing only the North Pole with observatories, the massed nations have sent some men to the Antarctic Zone, some to tropic regions. Africa and South America have six stations each. Some 250 men, and a few women, were last week scattered between South Orkney...
...Seabright Tennis & Cricket Club suggested that players who were dissatisfied with its hospitality could withdraw. The 14 players "respectfully" withdrew...