Word: withdrawnness
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...unmistakable fact is that the Taft drive has collapsed as a result of successive setbacks in New Hampshire and Minnesota, and because of the tremendous ground swell of Eisenhower support among the independent-thinking people of New Jersey. That is the reason-and the only reason-Senator Taft has withdrawn...
...came to an official end. Ex-President Wagner, who was fired as the climax of a quarrel that started with his dismissal of 23 professors for "economy" reasons, announced that he had settled his $100,000 libel suit against the college for $50,000, and had withdrawn his $500,000 damage suit against eleven trustees. After both sides agreed to say nothing more, Wagner fired a Parthian shot: "[I was] a scapegoat . . . I carried out the instructions of the board of trustees . . ." Then he announced his new job: executive director of the Ford-sponsored Film Council of America, which produces...
That was too much for former State Senator J. Wesley Colburn of Nashua, who had withdrawn as chairman of the state's MacArthur-for-President movement at the general's request. To get things straight, he wrote MacArthur a letter: Should the general's admirers support the MacArthur-pledged slate, or someone else? The old soldier penned a note at the bottom of the letter, mailed it back to Colburn. In the note was the long-expected "announcement": "I thank you for your note. Under the circumstances I suggest you support Taft. D. MacA...
Metcalf said that "the Library of Congress cards require too much space and money." The 1,500,000 cards that will eventually be withdrawn will rave the Library $15,000 in space, the equivalent of one cent per card. In this way, the saving in catalogue space will balance the cost of removing the cards...
...That all troops be withdrawn as soon after the first of the year as possible...