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...broke the news about the formation of the NRA. He won Pulitzer prizes for exclusive interviews with Presidents Roosevelt and Truman. Even after he was replaced by James Reston as bureau chief in 1953, the probing columnist stayed on the job. "I didn't retreat," he says. "I withdrew to a previously prepared position...
...collection "already has a great number of Rubenses." Millar sought out Christie's Carritt, diffidently asked: "Isn't that a rather important picture you've got in your sale?" Carritt took a quick stroll through the Hill, cast an eye at Paris, exclaimed, "My God!" and withdrew the work from the sale...
...Woman!" By the time she returned to stand trial a year later, she had begun to attract public support. Besides, the first issue of Woman Rebel had only promised the illegal stories; it had not delivered them. The Govern ment withdrew its indictment...
...leaders of the Chicago area quickly moved to meet the challenge with positive action. Sitting down with King at week's end, they agreed to his demands for an "open city," promised to take affirmative steps to open all-white neighborhoods to Negroes. The Chicago Real Estate Board withdrew its opposition to the basic tenet of open-housing legislation. The housing authority promised to improve public housing and place families in the best available housing without regard to the racial character of the neighborhood. Mortgage bankers said that they would provide mortgage money without regard to race. In addition...
...victory parade. But in 1948 he launched Malaya's Red "war of liberation" against Britain's colonial regime, which cost nearly 18,000 dead and required 350,000 Commonwealth troops before it was crushed. (London took back his O.B.E.) In 1955, Chin and 600 ragged followers withdrew to southern Thailand, bided their time living in attap (palm leaf) huts...