Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more cheerful than many an opening night will be the closing of The Ladder which has been holding forth so long and so unprofitably on the probabilities of reincarnation. Its now famed producer, Edgar B. Davis, oil-tycoon and philanthropist, last week issued a statement saying that he would withdraw the play since it did not seem to be a success...
Citizens wondered what, if any, relation or comparison there might be between Mr. Ford's reasoning processes and the processes of John Jacob Raskob, retired finance chairman of General Motors, the biggest Ford competitor. Long before his new political activities caused him to withdraw from General Motors, Mr. Raskob was, as everyone knows, active in the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment...
...ship, the Chelsea, joins the flotilla, which then proceeds 2,300 miles across the Southern Ocean to the Ross Sea and the Bay of Whales. The ships will remain long enough to see the expedition established in the ice village, the great wireless mast grounded in the glacier, then withdraw for ten months to escape the six months' night which is the Antarctic winter. In the autumn of 1929 they will return to pick up the expedition, carry it back to the U. S. early...
...have never consciously questioned any man's motives and so ... I desire to withdraw the charges formally, in so far as they affect his votes on gambling and prostitution, but not his position as to the saloon...
...treaty signing which is to crown his regime, Secretary Kellogg announced definite progress on the long-tangled China problem. In Nanking, a tariff treaty was signed by the U. S., granting de facto recognition to the Nationalist regime of the Chinese Republic (see p.23). The Navy Department prepared to withdraw from Chinese waters some of the 56 U. S. warboats now there under command of Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol...