Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stassen, Republican nominee for Governor, instead of Thomas Gallagher, the Democratic candidate. Said he: "If the National Administration were concerned about the strength of the Democratic party in Minnesota, the time to show that concern was two years ago, when the Democratic candidates for Governor and Senator were withdrawn...
...with his boss: "Don't believe a word of it. The Post-Dispatch cannot be 'reached'-I have seen that tried often enough to know." In a gregarious profession, Bovard's aloofness has become a legend. To keep his objectivity on ice, he lived completely withdrawn from the social and community life of St. Louis, in which he was a pervasive power. He belonged to no clubs, had no friends in public life. Childless, he lives with his wife on a salary that one year reached $75,000 plus bonus, on a 96-acre farm...
...Japanese Government had repeatedly pooh-poohed recurrent rumors that it might abandon the Games because of the "incident" in China and had already voted 15,000,000 yen ($5,000,000) for the construction of an Olympic Village, the Minister of Public Welfare suddenly announced that the Government had withdrawn its support of the 1940 Olympics, asked Tokyo to revoke its invitation...
...opera's composer had italicized its gruesomeness with uncanny naturalism. For sheer horror nothing like it had ever been witnessed on the austere Metropolitan's stage. When the performance was over, pale, gibbering bluenoses fumed with indignation. After a dress rehearsal and one public showing, Salome was withdrawn from the Metropolitan's repertoire, remained unperformed there for 27 years...
...object to French occupation "for the time being." In Tokyo, smarting Foreign Office officials notified French Ambassador Charles Arséne Henry that "stationing of Annamite troops on the Paracels might lead to misunderstandings between them and Japanese workers on the islands," asked that the troops be withdrawn. The French Ambassador blandly assured them that "the interests of the workers would be fully respected...