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There were also shifts on the board of directors. Lammot du Pont, who has not been active in G.M. affairs, resigned and Director Donaldson Brown, another Du Pont man, though remaining a director, withdrew from any "further executive responsibilities" on the General Motors board. This caused Wall Streeters to buzz that Du Pont was about to pull out of G.M. Both G.M. and Du Pont denied it. As proof there was nothing to the report, they pointed to the four Du Pont men still on the board...
...Harry Truman's friends of Senate days: Montana's brusque Burt Wheeler and Wyoming's earnest Joe O'Mahoney. Frankly and flatly they told the President that he was asking the party to wreck itself; perhaps it would be better all around if he withdrew the bill. The rail strike was over; the coal strike was close to settlement. Harry Truman was no longer hopping mad; he thought hard about the political implications of his swift decision five days before. He would consider withdrawing the measure, but he gave no promise...
...truce agreement to replace the pact that the Communists broke. No one ever announced that the Reds had agreed. But suddenly last week Chiang's General Tu Liming led his troops 67 miles in four days up Manchuria's spine. As he stormed Changchun, the Reds withdrew limply to the north...
...after day he had talked on, noting understandingly how the operators' "souls are tortured." He had made no specific demands. They pleaded: what was his proposition? He countered: what did they offer? At last in lofty-anger he withdrew. Contracts expired and miners stopped mining...
...nags, Star Pilot, to win. Knockdown did it again last week in a nine-furlong workout against Star Pilot (who had already won purses totaling $187,385). Gawky Knockdown was running easily at the finish in 1:56. Reluctantly Elizabeth Arden scratched Star Pilot as a Derby starter, and withdrew another horse, Colony Boy, because of a leg injury...