Word: abolitionism
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The new chief minister for the island colony, only 1,320 yards across the Straits of Johore from the guerrilla-war land of Malaya, would almost certainly be Laborite David Marshall, 47, a sharp, headline-grabbing lawyer who recently visited Britain to study Attlee's and Nye Bevan'...
Feet off Desk. Bertie McCormick seemed to have come by his autocratic, opinionated ways by inheritance. His grandfather, Joseph Medill, one of the founders of the Republican Party, once characteristically hollered at Congressman Abe Lincoln "Take your goddamned feet off my desk, Abe." (The Colonel enforced his own Trib ban...
Opposed in principle to paying any taxes, Poujade & Co. demand: 1) abolition of the Polyvalents, the Finance Ministry's 376-man squad of special investigators, who have the power to descend on any enterprise and check its books; 2) repeal of penalties for tax evasion. Egged on by Poujade...
This was the case at Brown and Dartmouth. Neither Robert "Red" Rolfe of the Green nor Paul MacKesey of the Bruins indicated their respective institutions had taken positive steps at abolition but both liked the idea.
These two assumptions are justified if one looks at some state universites. Football can be much overemphasized: a good athlete may need no other talent to stay in college, and the university may lavish money on him to secure the interest and donations of the alumni. With this kind of...