Word: withdrew
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Under Guild pressure, Chief Justice Hughes politely withdrew from the Society, but the President definitely down-thumbed the Guild's protests by describing at his press conference how Steve Early and he had looked over the Society's constitution, decided it was a "pretty good thing." To the correspondents he read...
...anti-Curley vote this time was an ambitious aggregation which by last week had sifted down to Maurice J. Tobin (a member of the Boston School Committee), onetime (1926-29) Republican Mayor Malcolm Ex Nichols and Democratic District Attorney William J. Foley, besides two lesser candidates, one of whom withdrew his name too late to get it off the ballot...
...Spain was transmitted by the North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy, frankly Leftist in sympathy, which sent $197,575. The American Committee for Spanish Relief, an organization whose treasurer is onetime U. S. Ambassador to Spain Ogden Haggerty Hammond, and from which Major General William Nafew Haskell withdrew saying it was not non-partisan but Rightist in his opinion, not only has sent no relief to Spain but spent $30,241 on publicity and administration while taking in only $28,635. This was attributed by Mr. Hammond chiefly to losses incurred with a Madison Square Garden pageant...
...management of his store to others, in order to devote himself to the public propagation of his ideals. Among these were: the 20th Century Fund which he founded in 1919 for economic research; the International Chamber of Commerce; the U. S. Chamber of Commerce (from which he completely withdrew in 1936 when he thought the Chamber had become a reactionary businessmen's club); the re-election of Franklin Roosevelt; co-operative credit associations. In 1936 his remarks at the biennial congress of the Cooperative League of the U. S., were interpreted by some listeners as a final severance with...
...memorial near completion. The only remaining Presidential head, that of Theodore Roosevelt, has already been roughed in. His final task will be finding a suitable historical inscription. The 500-word history of the U. S. submitted by President Coolidge was edited so extensively by Sculptor Borglum that Mr. Coolidge withdrew it in a huff. ''Posterity," says Gutzon Borglum, "will hold me responsible for it, whether I write it or not, and I want it to be right...