Word: afoul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undergraduate actors ran afoul of the law with the play "Fiesta," by the New York playwright, Micheal Gold. The original manuscript of the work, a comedy of the Mexican Revolution is on view and next to it is a letter from the Boston board of censors indicating that it was "improper" and "unfit for presentation...
Since any riot whatsoever may be termed a breach of the peace and undergraduates who indulge in them take the inescapable risk of running afoul of the law as well as the college authorities, it is evident that riots are an unprofitable way of spending a spring evening, and often lead the innocent student to unforeseen and disastrous ends. But, compared to riots that occur during strikes, and communist battles every May day, a student "riot" can hardly be called a serious affair. Despite several gallons of water spread over the streets of Cambridge, and a few parking signs transferred...
...Ambassador Bullitt is Franklin Roosevelt's closest personal adviser on foreign affairs, holds a position much like that which Raymond Moley held in 1933 before he ran afoul of Secretary Hull. From Paris Mr. Bullitt telephones the White House almost daily and sends back voluminous written reports for the President's eyes alone. With a volatility of mind similar to that of Rexford Guy Tugwell, Bill Bullitt gives advice which appeals to Franklin Roosevelt...
Haled before the Securities & Exchange Commission in Washington last week was President Walter Clark Teagle of Standard Oil of New Jersey. Not afoul of SEC was the country's biggest oil company. The Commission merely wanted Mr. Teagle to answer a question which he himself had asked in a letter to Frederick H. Bedford Jr., a working Standard director: Why did Standard "happen to be so directly interested" in a protective committee for defaulted bonds of the Republic of Colombia...
...dynamic possibilities as far as later study and thought are concerned. Its reception will depend largely upon the first launching-the attention to detail, the attractiveness of the reward, its inherent usefulness, above all, perhaps, the preservation of some measure of informality in its organization, for it runs afoul the worst enemies of any non-compulsory undertaking the twin devils of apathy and lethargy. The Committee's report and the reaction to, it is awaited with eagerness and optimism...