Word: consultation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest privileges of my life. I reached Helen Keller's home at the appointed time and was ushered into the living room by the maid who said that Helen Keller had to go unexpectedly to New York. Her teacher, Mrs. Macy--her "liberatorr and guardian angel"--had to consult an oculist as she was losing her eyesight rapidly and Helen Keller went with her and her secretary. So while waiting I availed myself of the invitation to look at her library and read any book I wished. In addition to other books, I noticed the works of Mark Twain, Carlyle...
...swimming pool beside his house in six days, suggested that the government build an island off Waikiki and announced a plan to put $110 million into new resorts. Last week H.J. began to back his words with actions. After a quick trip to Los Angeles to line up financing, consult with Architect Welton Becket and a representative of Conrad Hilton, Kaiser plunked down $491,000 for more beachfront, thus became Waikiki's biggest landowner (16½ acres...
...they faced a staggering task. Since they could not film all the volumes in the Vatican, they had to select the books and manuscripts most valuable to scholars. The Vatican's indexes, however, often gave only sketchy descriptions of the various books, and it was necessary to consult scores of experts in all sorts of fields from medicine to mathematics, astrology to astronomy, Roman civil to medieval canon law. Meanwhile, there was the problem of equipment. In 1951 the U.S. Air Force was buying up most of the film available in Europe, and the only company that could produce...
This leaves Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi himself in the role of Iran's next strongman. He did not even consult the Majlis (Parliament) before appointing his new Premier, as he is expected...
...Where the employee has been cleared in another agency, his chief should consult the other agency "to avoid conflicting evaluations." This is an obvious outgrowth of the Ladejinsky case (TIME, Jan. 3 et seq.), in which Agricultural Attache Wolf Ladejinsky, long since cleared by the State Department, was fired by Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson, rehired by Harold Stassen...