Word: withdrew
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There were two politically significant interviews during the pre-convention Smith week: 1) Atlee Pomerene, favorite son to whom the Ohio Democracy had pledged its delegates, called on Candidate Smith in Manhattan the day after Governor Ritchie of Maryland withdrew his candidacy. Observers concluded that Candidate Pomerene had offered to withdraw too, if and when desired...
...Peking and Tientsin were captured by Feng's troops (TIME, June 18, 25); but last week he ostentatiously eschewed the role of Conqueror. With a gesture that smacked of authentic greatness the Broad Bronzed Marshal left a part of his victorious forces in the field and modestly withdrew to Honan Province, central China...
...Fuller, Michigan's Chase Salmon Osborn and Missouri's Governor Sam A. Baker were all placed in nomination. But up got Senator Borah, out boomed the great Borah voice, up jumped the Kansans in a repetition of their Curtis demonstration the night before. The four other nominees withdrew. The Curtis delegate-daughter, handsome Mrs. Leona Curtis Knight of Rhode Island, seconded her father in 17 words after a seconding speech by New Jersey's (Senator) Walter Evans Edge, who removed the last trace of competition...
...Methodist Episcopal Church set out to elect three bishops. Two they rapidly chose: Dr. Raymond J. Wade of Chicago and Dr. James Chamberlain Baker of Urbana, Ill. Over the many able candidates for the third, they wrangled and ballotted 19 times without avail. At last the two leading candidates withdrew their names, a Korean lady made a potent speech and the Methodists elected the 33rd Bishop of the Church by a sweeping majority. He was the famed Rev. Eli Stanley Jones, missionary in India and author of The Christ of the Indian Road. No sooner had he received this honor...
Call Money Rate, for the first time since July, 1921, rose to 6½%. Banks one day withdrew ten million dollars from the money market; Memorial vacation day's impingement was another cause; and twenty million dollars to England in the week a third...