Word: withdrawnness
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...that on Feb. 6, 1946, the day on which White's appointment was confirmed by the Senate, Mr. Truman did read the most important of the reports to which I referred, and that he thereafter, even though he had a legal right to ask that the nomination be withdrawn, signed White's commission and permitted him to take office on the first day of May with full knowledge of the facts reported...
...time Harry Truman's popularity index in the Gallup poll was beginning to decline. The 1946 congressional elections were less than a year away. The Republicans were preparing to attack, and the left wing of Harry Truman's own party was doubtful about him. If Truman had withdrawn the White appointment, howls would have risen from the right and left. Whatever his motive, the President signed White's commission. When he quit. Truman and Treasury Secretary Snyder wrote him letters of praise that laid it on thick enough for Harry White's taste...
...face-saving way to satisfy the state's insurance superintendent, allow Parkinson to get his retirement pay ($34,836 the first year, $29,868 the second, and $24,900 thereafter). They passed a resolution "confirming" Parkinson's decision to retire (made before the trouble started but since withdrawn), effective when his term as chairman expires next February...
...short-term perspective, Dulles was right, too. Even when-and if -the new strategy is worked out, the U.S. will not be able to put it into effect until West German and Japanese divisions are armed and ready to replace the U.S. troops that would be withdrawn...
...Treasury took quick advantage of the rise. An issue of two-year Treasury notes, priced last May to yield 2.16% to 2.47%, was withdrawn from sale. The Treasury will replace it with a new issue at lower interest rates "to reflect recent changes in the . . . market...