Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still had ambitions for the presidency. He was glad to be in Washington for a visit, he declared. "At one time last year, I expected to come for a longer stay. I was under the impression, which was shared by a great many others, that I had a clear call to duty. But last November it turned out to be some other kind of noise. Instead ... I have been graduated at a comparatively early age to the role of elder statesman, which someone has aptly defined as a politician who is no longer a candidate for office...
...party, we try to go back to the 19th Century, or even to the 1920s, you can bury the Republican Party as the deadest pigeon in the country . . . What we ought to do is to stop bellyaching about the past . . . and start making it everlastingly clear to the country where we stand...
...prohibition of secondary boycotts is a more complex matter: some of these are justified by the necessity for cohesion in the labor movement, while some wreak unfair harm on an employer who may have nothing to do with a dispute in another plant or industry. One thing is clear: if Congress presumes to handle the secondary boycott in a new law, it must define more closely who are the legitimate participants of a bona fide labor dispute...
...woman who is undoubtedly one of the greatest social workers in the United States. Following these attacks, Miriam Van Waters was dismissed on January 11 as superintendent of the Women's Reformatory at Framingham by her superior, Commissioner of Correction McDowell. She demanded --and got--a special hearing to clear her record, but under a strange sort of law, this hearing was conducted before the Commissioner himself. McDowell was therefore judge, jury, and prosecutor; his decision last Friday to sustain his original findings was hardly surprising...
...Council has made a grave mistake in considering this issue in terms of past demands, not present and future exigencies," Miss Hall asserted. It has failed to recognize "the clear distinction between political and other clubs," she added, urging reconsideration of the problem...