Word: ascertainment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just how much truth lies behind all the scandalmongering is hard to ascertain. On the Cooney affair, the bi-partisan state Law Enforcement Council came to no significant conclusion. The Republican majority found Meyner "derelict" in his duty; the Democratic minority exonerated him completely. It might be relevant to point out, however, that Meyner was elected partially as a reform governor, that he conducted a careful investigation of the Hoffman case (former G.O.P. governor Harold G. Hoffman stole some $300,000 from the state), and that under his administration the Joe Adonises and the Frank Ericksons seem to have disappeared...
...three faculty members accused in that editorial of "carping criticism" are away from Harvard this semester. Of those two, Professor Brower has been abroad all year and has had no part in the matters discussed in your editorial--a fact which your writer might have taken the trouble to ascertain before making his accusation...
...three of a total board of nine which acts unanimously in all important decisions. Your editorial writer did not, I am told, consult any one of the members of the board. Since your editorial purported to be based on matters of fact, it would seem that an effort to ascertain the facts in issue would have been appropriate...
...stated, however, that the University wants to ascertain whether the students would use the bus before definite action is taken...
...been summoned to consider the budget and could not legally treat other matters. While the School Committee is entitled to suspend its own rules of procedure, it cannot set aside the General Laws of Massachusetts. These, in addition to the Cambridge law, require that the School Committee shall ascertain the qualifications for all teaching personnel...