Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clever trick of kicking the democracies in the pants when they were worried about troubles elsewhere. The Japanese war office hissed assurances that the Hainan occupation was purely a military operation to keep the Chinese from shipping arms to South China. The Japanese said they would withdraw when there was no further military necessity for their presence. Every government in the world knew they would not if they could help...
Amidst all the celebration there came not one indication that Dictator Mussolini intended to carry out the solemn promise he was said to have made to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain less than a month ago: to withdraw his troops from Spain as soon as the Rebels won the war. On the contrary, there was evidence aplenty that Il Duce intended to use the threat of these troops to gain concessions from France...
Died. Dr. Joseph Irwin France, 65, onetime (1917-23) U. S. Senator from Maryland; of a heart attack; in Port Deposit, Md. The only avowed candidate against Herbert Hoover at the Republican Convention in 1932, he was forcibly ejected from the convention rostrum when he attempted to withdraw his name and substitute that of Calvin Coolidge...
...house of 500 listeners, Kerins mowed down his opponents by choice phrases quoted from Edmund Burke which received loud applause from citizens and many of Kerins' former high school classmates. In his three-minute speech, Kerins gave his rivals for election until February 8 to present their platforms or withdraw from the election, which takes place on March...
...They must justify their stand, or confess ignorance of what's been going on," he said last night. "If they do the latter, I'll ask them to withdraw gracefully from the contest. As a matter of fact, I expect either to be completely ignored or subjected to a bitter personal attack...