Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cannot Fight On." West Berlin's mayor begged the U.S., British and French to let Western police take over the protection of all railways in their sectors. U.S. Brigadier General Frank L. Howley called the Western commandants into session to discuss what he called an "intolerable situation." To avoid international complications just before the Paris Big Four meeting, the commanders hedged. Western police, they decided, could intervene only to restore order when individual fights got out of hand...
...throwing out the Taft-Hartley Act, would reinstate the 1935 Wagner Act as it stood. This was exactly what C.I.O. leaders had originally demanded. Marcantonio shrilled that he wanted to make the issue clear-cut. But it was just the kind of clearcutness that cautious Administration leaders wanted to avoid...
Prospective students at the second postwar session of the Summer School can go through the usual signing-in today and tomorrow at Memorial Hall and thereby avoid re-registering on July...
...plan for the erection of eight new Moscow skyscrapers (16 to 32 stories), Vechernyaya Moskva predicted that Moscow's skyline of the future will be festive and eye-pleasing, not at all like its American counterpart-not a sway or a crack in a block. Russian architects will avoid the "errors" of U.S. builders-the Soviet skyscrapers will not yield to the wind, but will stand "unshaken and firm...
Third, the Teachers' Union resolved that "in time when widespread suspicion and organized pressure threaten the independence of university scholars, every effort must be made to preserve the principles of academic freedom, and special effort should be made to avoid stigmatizing or punishing members of the faculty who profess independent or unpopular views...