Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then he ran head-on into the blowup over stock holdings. In an effort to comply with the conflict-of-interests law, he resigned as president of the Sprague Electric Company (electrical and electronic parts) of North Adams, Mass., and got the board of directors to pledge that the firm would do no business with the Air Force while he was Under Secretary. But he refused to sell his $5,000,000 interest (13.4% of the total stock) in the North Adams firm because he did not want out-of-town interests to get control. "Certain members" of the Senate...
Forrester A. Clark '29, Third Marshal and head of the special gifts division of the Reunion Fund, said yesterday he did not think the funds would conflict. If they do, he said, he would support the regular one, because "Harvard is a lot bigger than a few red professors...
Reston foresees a virtual honeymoon between Congress and President Eisenhower. "Ike has a great personal touch," he said. "He doesn't believe in an inevitable conflict with anyone--Russia, Senator Taft, or anyone...
...members of the Supreme Court were appointed by Roosevelt or Truman. Most will probably serve through the next four years, yet conflict between the Administration and the Court is not predicted...
...Urging government subsidies to boost the output of psychiatrists, Catholic University's Msgr. Maurice Sheehy declared: "Some day I hope to see a psychiatrist formally canonized by the church, to do away with idle gossip about conflict between learnings which have as their end the welfare of man and the kingdom of God. The priest and the psychiatrist should work shoulder to shoulder...