Word: breaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ventured no prediction, but concluded three pro and con articles on "The Big Question" with more cons than pros. Reston reasoned that none of the President's most trusted advisers would want to play the devil's advocate in urging Ike not to run. Stepping into the breach, Reston listed nine reasons why Ike should not run, against six for running...
Randolph's one-man campaign is a flagrant breach in the conspiracy of courtesy that by long tradition keeps Fleet Street mum about its own foibles. "It is a curious thing," he has written, "that wealthy men who own papers set themselves up to criticize every kind of institution, but they themselves are the one institution which is totally immune from criticism . . . Dog don't eat dog. That is one of the reasons why some of the London press...
...Faculty Committee. When this Faculty group reaffirmed the provisions of the Bailey Plan, 14 members of the Visiting Committee accused the University of disregarding the Arboretum's interests and planning to break faith with its donors. Independently, they hired counsel to give an opinion as to whether a legal breach of trust was involved. In September, 1950, John Wells Farley '99, the lawyer for the group, found that transferring the books and specimens to Cambridge would constitute a breach of the University's public trust...
...Madame Butterfly, Hell's-Kitchen-born Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas (TIME, Nov. 21) strode offstage in Chicago's Civic Opera House, applause still caressing her ears. She fluttered straight into an ambush party of eight process servers, who were there to tag her with summonses in breach-of-contract suits brought against her by a Manhattan lawyer. Windmilling in outrage and trilling furiously in English and Italian, Grand Diva Callas erupted: "Get your hands off me! Don't touch me, don't touch me! Chicago will be sorry for this!" As the servers, aghast at having...
Stevenson: "If an innocent and gullible Miss Minnesota feels aggrieved by these gay deceivers I will gladly be a witness in a breach-of-promise suit against the Republicans, because I was at Kasson that famous day. And I am happy to recall that I did not outbid or even try to match the Republican promises to the farmers." Then Stevenson made the statement that the farm-conscious Minnesotans wanted to hear. Said he: "We must return to the 90% supports which the Republicans thought so well of in 1952, until they decided it was time for a change-after...