Word: circumventions
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Although this letter is circulated by hand in an effort to circumvent Postal law, a Post Office spokesman pronounced the scheme "positively and irrevocably illegal" because it involves sending pay-off checks through the mall. The checks, said the spokesman, are part of the plan and as a result the...
Part of Lassman's case against Clay is based on the controversial $50,000 contract, signed before the Clay-Liston fight, which gave Sonny's promoters the rights to Clay's first fight if he should become champion. This contract does appear to be a not very subtle effort to...
The decision sealed off the loophole that labor had hoped to use to circumvent the right-to-work laws that have been passed in 20 states. Right-to-work's prime target is the union shop, in which workers must join a union to keep their jobs. To overcome...
Suggestions have been made to us even from very unexpected sources that we word our membership clause in such a way that we do not appear to discriminate against any people while still reserving our power to actually do so safely. We have rejected such suggestions on several grounds: First...
The Old Orator. Only when word got around that Republican Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen was scheduled to speak did the Senate begin to fill. It was known that Dirksen, after harboring "grave doubts," had come around to approval. It was also known that in order to dispel some of the...