Word: withdrawnness
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...United Mine Workers has withdrawn its petition to represent Radcliffe maintenance workers now members of Local 254 of the Building Service Employees' International Union...
...heard about the ruckus and decided that she would not accept her invitation. In Chicago, Roosevelt University Sociology Professor St. Clair Drake also received an invitation, but the word from Richmond was that his invitation-as well as any others that had slipped through the racial screen-would be withdrawn...
...Also withdrawn-in the sense that he privately approved of these actions and passed the buck to the Chamber of Commerce-was Virginia's weak-kneed Governor Thomas B. Stanley, who had co-signed the engraved invitations with a flourish. But many another white Southerner was highly offended at the breach of good manners. In an open letter to Governor Stanley, Virginia-born Lambert Davis, director of the University of North Carolina Press, wrote: "[You] have taken the ridiculous position of asserting, in effect, that being distinguished is an accomplishment possible only for people of Caucasian ancestry. You have...
...prospect that good weather will help produce one of the greatest feed-grain crops ot all time-a depressing addition to the record 43 million-ton carryover from last year. Nevertheless, the soil-bank program has done better than expected in taking corn land out of cultivation. Farmers have withdrawn a total 5,200,000 acres this spring, cutting expected corn acreage by nearly 10%. While the basic problems of oversupply are still far from solved, even the most pessimistic farm economists believe that the farm cycle has ended its downturn, and stabilized...
...countries to grant diplomatic recognition to the young United States, added that his own country now seeks American aid-but not alms: "We want to be helped now, in order not to be helped in the future." TIME'S cover story traces the astonishing development of this quiet, withdrawn man who won his country's independence without renouncing the friendship of its onetime rulers. See FOREIGN NEWS, Man of Balances...