Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...been created; state legislators were listed as proctors and night watchmen, one was "honorary captain of grass-cutters." Results of the shake-up were soon apparent : U. S. Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde objected to a Bilbo appointee at Mississippi Agricultural & Mechanical College, one Lee Denson, threat to withdraw Federal aid ($340,000 Governor Bilbo gave in, re Mr. Denson with L. A. Olsen, agree to Secretary Hyde. The American Medical Association served notice that unless members of the University's faculty of medicine were re it would use its influence to pre vent Mississippi graduates from practicing...
...That scheme was all humbug!" shouted James Henry ("Jim") Thomas for the Government. Amid cries of "Shame! Shame! Withdraw! Withdraw!" he stammered: "Of course I mean nothing personal. He himself [Prime Minister Bennett] is not a humbug...
...Upon the close of the 1930 golfing season I determined immediately that I would withdraw entirely from golfing competition of a serious nature. Fourteen years of intense tournament play . . . had given me about all I wanted in the way of hard work in the game. ... I felt that my profession required more of my time and effort, leaving golf ... a means of obtaining recreation and enjoyment. ... I have decided upon a step which I think ought to be explained to the golfers of this country. ... I certainly shall never become a professional golfer. But since I am no longer...
...court, in charging the November Grand Jury, had revealed that "overtures" had been made both to him and to the State's Attorney's office by an emissary of Capone. The proposition was that if the police would promise not to interfere with Capone's liquor trade, Capone would withdraw from his labor union rackets; more, he would surrender himself on a vagrancy charge, if the charge would be dropped immediately, and thereafter leave town, conduct his business by remote control...
...Coffin replied by inviting the Episcopalians to his own communion service at Union Theological. Last week he answered Bishop Manning by rescinding his assent to preach in the Church of the Ascension. His comment: "In view of Bishop Manning's sermon and the subsequent discussion, it seemed wise to withdraw, as I did not wish to be the means of promoting further controversy...