Word: withdrew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When her nomination reached the Senate, Miss Matthews's experience in and connection with the Treasury were paradoxically the very things that militated against her immediate confirmation. Confirming her once, the Senate withdrew its approval for further consideration after Senator Couzens, Treasury foe, unearthed a Senate resolution barring appointments directly from the Bureau of Internal Revenue to the tax board lest the board be packed with Treasury appointees...
...have depreciated. Causes of the company's troubles are supposed to have arisen from heavy expenditures in distillation experiments and poor management. According to rumor several oil and utility companies, recognizing Combustion's strategic position, considered merging with it, then withdrew after viewing the involved finances and small amount of actually liquid assets. Significant to Wall Street was the fact that President George Edward Learnard, onetime Boston bookkeeper resigned Dec. 6, four days before the preferred dividend was passed...
Thoughtfully picking his nose, Referee Jack Dempsey stood in the corner of a ring in Madison Square Garden while the announcer introduced two fighters. In this corner lantern-jawed Otto von Porat, Norwegian white hope. In this corner Philip Scott, onetime London fireman. The announcer withdrew. Von Porat, Scott, boxed clumsily for a round. In the second round von Porat hit the more agile Scott in the groin. Referee Dempsey helped Scott up and declared him the winner. From the ringside a reporter for the Norway Post, telephoning the sad news to his editor in Oslo, added the suggestion that...
Plucked to the Skin. Obeying orders from Moscow, the long grey Soviet armored trains which plunged their fangs into Manchuria last fortnight withdrew to their own frontiers last week. But in the areas they had raked and ravaged Chinese fright and confusion grew from panic to anarchy. Soldiers deserted their colors, looted indiscriminately. Hundreds of refugees who straggled into the larger Manchurian towns and Harbin, the capital, had been robbed of all their possessions by Chinese, not Soviet troops. Some were stark naked, plucked to the skin. As usual, a good many fingers had been cut off by Chinese soldiers...
Died. Harry Hart, 79, president of Hart, Schaffner & Marx (clothing); in Chicago; of pneumonia. In 1872, with his brother Max, he began the firm of Harry Hart & Bro. in Chicago. With a brother-in-law and Marcus Marx, Hart, Abt & Marx was opened seven years later. When Levi Abt withdrew from the concern, a new partner was taken in and the present house established as Hart, Schaffner & Marx. The first year (1887) they did a $550,000 business; last year, a $35,000,000 business. Founder Hart survived his partners. Long interested in educational* and social work...