Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Phoebe Titus' friends compared her to a pack rat, another to Joan of Arc. Neither would have been surprised had she sold the territory short when the Federal troops were withdrawn at the Civil War's outbreak, leaving Tucson to be overrun by Mexican raiders and Apache scalping parties. But beauteous, powerful, 20-year-old Phoebe had Vision. "Right where ye stand," she told a dubious group of fellow Tucsonians, "right where this filthy, crumblin', ornery corner of hell is reelin' 'n' roarin' 'n' robbin' 'n' killin...
...course, have fallen had Mr. Roosevelt not stuck his chin out farther than any President since Woodrow Wilson. He could have seen the attack coming had he not blinded himself to the meaning of the last Congressional election. Fighter that he is, it is doubtful that he would have withdrawn his chin even then. All during the first session of the 76th Congress he absorbed attack, going back for more on one issue after another. But now came the terrible closing rounds, as an angry and rebellious Congress fought toward the adjournment bell...
This rebuff left Federation officials with the problems of: 1) 700 disappointed delegates, who had looked forward to fun in Rio, and 2) where to hold their meeting. Last week they neatly got around their difficulty. Accepting the Government's explanation that the invitation had been withdrawn, not for political reasons, but only because a new convention hall had not been completed, they decided to go to Rio for their fun, hold their meetings afterward on the homeward cruising S. S. Rotterdam...
Economically we now stand little ahead of where we stood four years ago. ... I do not think the people will ... be content with timid solutions offered by government, solutions fearfully withdrawn before they can be really tested. Unless the nation is led unhesitatingly and courageously forward ... we stand in danger...
Donald A. Donahue '41, aco Crimson hurdler and a member of the Yale-Harvard track team which will meet an Oxford-Cambridge cinder combine at White City, England, on July 15 has withdrawn from the high hurdles in order that Jay Shields, Yale captain elect, may make the trip and compete in the event...