Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Christian Herter, Jr. '41, former Governor and present Assistant Secretary of State, warned prospective lawyers to avoid politics unless they were securely affiliated with some legal firm. Speaking at the Conference on "Law as a Career" he stressed the need of developing a profession before planning a political career...
...attempts to raise funds have centered largely around interested corporations and foundations which have a stake in the development of Harvard's project. "We have been trying to avoid canvassing alumni in our drive," Katz said, "because we don't want to disturb the regular Alumni Fund procedure...
...full burden of avoiding price inflation," he wrote, "cannot be successfully carried by [Government] fiscal and monetary restraints alone." Echoing his State of the Union message (TIME, Jan. 21), he appealed to business and labor leaders "to help avoid economic imbalance and dislocation ... to reach agreements on wages and other labor benefits that are fair to the rest of the community. Negotiated wage increases should be consistent with productivity prospects and with the maintenance of a stable dollar. And businesses must recognize the broad public interest in the prices set on their products and services." The President added a warning...
...analyzing the situation, speaks rather bitterly of "my maternal grandfather, my paternal grandfather, my only grandfather." What makes the case even more difficult is that two of the Stace children were engaged to marry two of Mrs. Lang's offspring. The engagements had to be broken off, to avoid fresh incest. And when Sophia dies abruptly of "some internal illness that is mortal." the children really feel it is time for them to go and live somewhere else. The neighbors agree that this is a wise move, though naturally they are sorry to lose a family that has brought...
...Higginson & Co. begged to be his broker and soon bore him a bouncing new corporation, International Match. Kreuger promptly convinced the directors, among them Percy Rockefeller, nephew of John D., that the millions raised from this and subsequent flotations should be deposited by him with a European subsidiary, to "avoid taxes." Kreuger, in turn, would mail back the dividends, some of them as handsome...