Word: breach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such radical departures were regarded with jaundiced disapproval by General Manager Stubbs, a Guy Gannett conservative. The breach between Stubbs and Roger Williams widened into an open feud. "Stubbs didn't care a hoot about improving the paper,'' said Jean Gannett Williams, who did. Last fall, worn out by refereeing the quarrel, Jean collapsed, was hospitalized with pneumonia. A long convalescence gave her ample time to think...
...months Peking's trade offensive in Southeast Asia-which seriously worried the Japanese-has begun to falter badly. Fortnight ago Mao's government, despite its need for foreign exchange, canceled a contract to supply British firms with several thousand tons of cotton and cotton waste, and this breach of contract will jeopardize future negotiations...
...oaths provision because "it would be the height of absurdity to make funds available to Communists or saboteurs under the heading of national defense." He conceded that Communists would not hesitate to take the oath, said that if they did so, at least they would be guilty of breach of contract. In Congress the oaths are gathering enemies. Three bills to repeal them were introduced in the House. And in the Senate, Massachusetts' John Kennedy, who co-sponsored a repeal bill with Pennsylvania's Joseph Clark, called Mundt's anti-Communist mousetrap "an unnecessary, futile gesture toward...
Would girls in ROTC courses cause a breach in military atmosphere? The colonel didn't think so. "I always tell my boys to forget the fact that I'm wearing a military uniform. This is first and foremost an intellectual exercise, not just a military program...
...work . . . because something is bothering her [and] I wouldn't be surprised if it's because she thinks she's terribly fat." After this statement appeared in a Torre column in January 1957, Songstress Garland filed a $1,393,333 suit against CBS for libel and breach of contract. Subpoenaed as a witness, Columnist Torre refused to name her informant, pleading the confidential relationship of reporter to source.* Last month the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the conviction for contempt that grew out of her silence...