Word: according
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broke into the debate and read off a dispatch just received from British Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd. "I have the honor to inform you," the dispatch said, "that Her Majesty's government will at the first available opportunity introduce into the United Kingdom Parliament a bill to accord independence to the Gold Coast, and that, subject to parliamentary approval, Her Majesty's government intend that independence should come on March...
...Bill Martin, a lifelong advocate of free markets, the famed "accord" that divorced the Fed and the Treasury in 1951 was a labor of love. It stipulated, in essence, that marketable Treasury securities would again have to find their own level in free trading. The FRB thus was able once more to exercise effective control over the money supply by buying and selling Government securities as it saw fit on the open market...
...enacted many meritorious measures, but it has failed to come to grips with many others." Whenever the 84th got too blatantly political, it was slapped ba-k. The Presi dent made his veto stick on the Southern-Democratic-sponsored natural gas bill, al though he was "in accord with its basic objectives," because he got a strong whiff of "arrogant" lobbying (TIME...
TIME states that the American intellectual's "perennial problem has been to reconcile himself to a society that has always refused to accord him-or anyone else-the special regard given his European counterpart." I submit that American society does give other types much the same respectful interest which Europe saves for its intellectuals. I refer, of course, to the movie star, the baseball or football hero, the jazz-band conductor, the very successful businessman or industrialist...
...CRIMSON found itself somewhat involved this year in the usual collegiate argle-bargle: urging longer hours for female guests (in accord with the ideal of "gracious living"), advocating an additional mid-year vacation and drinking for 18-year olds, battling the Harvard Athletic Association for alcohol in the stands, tickets, and general principles. Yet in the midst of the frivolity the CRIME somehow found time for serious consideration of a few major issues...