Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...firm was dissolved in 1934. Knight and Reynolds reportedly had the largest practice in California. But as his legal fees rose, Knight's interest in his business declined. Besides, he was independently wealthy from his mining interests. "After we got prestige, we couldn't afford to accept cases from little people who needed our help. We didn't have any fun." In search of fun, Goodie quit his lush practice and accepted Governor Merriam's appointment as a $9,000-a-year judge. But in spite of occasional sensations that came his way, e.g., the Barbara...
Selecting. First a candidate for Parliament must get accepted. The national party (Conservative, Labor, Liberal) has to okay him, and he must also be "selected" by the local party's selection committee. Sometimes the national may impose a choice on a local committee, as Labor did last month when it made a Bevanite constituency in Liverpool accept that bulky anti-Bevanite, Mrs. Bessie Braddock (TIME, May 9). Locals can be balky. "Constituency-hunting is not an agreeable occupation," confessed the late Alfred Duff Cooper. "I sometimes thought that the members of the small executive committees, 'drest...
Johns Hopkins University Professor Owen Lattimore, Far East expert still under federal charges that he lied to a Congressional committee about his Red ties, got his passport renewed. This cleared the way for Lattimore to accept bids to lecture this summer at four English universities and other West European schools...
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal. Seltzer conceded that the paper had "no choice" but to accept the court's verdict. The Press, however, still felt it had a right to print the picture. Said a Press editorial: "It was not the picture taking that upset [the judge...
ATOMS -FOR -PEACE program pledged to the world by President Eisenhower is moving faster. Next bilateral agreement for sharing U.S. materials and know-how will be with the Philippine republic (first country: Turkey). Japan's Cabinet has also voted to accept a U.S. offer of enough uranium for a pilot reactor...