Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...share in Reparations alloted to France (amounting to 54% of the total) ? Instantly, an actor taking his cue, the Governor of the Bank of France, potent Emile Moreau, was on his feet. With flashing eyes he cried, "If the whole of this burden is placed on France, I will withdraw my signature as an original signer of the Young Plan...
...sensation at Bucharest, last week, brought rash Publicist Filipescu to a filthy cell in the common jail. Awaiting trial for lèse-majesté he stoutly said: "I will not withdraw one word!" His defense, he added, would be that his article is not ''an attack on the Royal Family," as the Crown Prosecutor charges, but instead is a patriotic rebuke to the Rumanian statesman who allowed Her Majesty to go abroad and gallivant...
Amid the typical, frantic French cheering which followed. M. Franklin-Bouillion conceded himself routed. "I withdraw!" he shouted, enthusiastic even in repentance, "Cher M. Briand, I withdraw my motion...
...interminable debate on France's film quota law, a law providing that only four foreign films (instead of seven, as now) may be imported into France for each French film produced. U. S. film men, when passage of the law seemed certain several weeks ago, threatened to withdraw all films from France at once. French exhibitors, knowing their patrons' preference for U. S. films, immediately protested. The quota law hung fire...
...what was probably a frantic conference with the Overseers, Trustees and the heads of Lee Higginson (perhaps a redundant grouping) hotly denied that there was any truth in the story at all. Boston correspondents would be quite justified in asking Harvard authorities either to make up their minds or withdraw from such vulgar activities as publicity. New Yorker...