Word: deem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jolly soon came back." Reason was the academy's unwritten law prohibiting any work that might cause offense or annoyance to the viewer's religious or moral scruples. The academy's particular concern was that Queen Mary, peering at The Sphinx strait-lacedly, might deem it beyond the pale of propriety, though, says Sir Gerald, "For the life of me, I couldn't see anything about it to shock anybody...
...seven successive years (1947-53) Congress tacked on to the State Department Appropriation Act a rider giving the Secretary of State "absolute discretion" to fire any State Department or Foreign Service employee "whenever he shall deem such termination necessary or advisable in the interests of the U.S." This discretion was to be exercised, said the rider, "notwithstanding the provisions of ... any other law." At the same time the State Department's own internal regulations prescribed a procedure for clearance that, in some cases, gave the Secretary of State no power at all to act. Last week, by a vote...
...soon start up a new probe into the administration of union welfare funds. Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell let it be known that his department was studying several different types of possible legislation. Beyond that, there was talk of tougher measures that labor experts ranging up to Secretary Mitchell deem restrictive, e.g., amendment of the Clayton Act so as to make labor unions subject, along with business, to monopoly laws. Said a high-ranking Government economist: "In the hands of one man there is the power to withhold all labor from an industry. That's a terrific amount...
...concerns sports, Radcliffe is "more a Boston school than a Big Seven school," Miss Luyten has explained. With the exception of Pembroke and Jackson, she said, the other women's schools in the Seven College Conference deem it "un-ladylike" to play full-length intercollegiate games, and will meet Radcliffe only in the annual Wellesley Playday...
...companies. To make it easier, the Justice Department last week approved a plan whereby 15 major U.S. oil companies would form a single marketing combine to supply Europe without laying themselves open to antitrust prosecution. Said Attorney General Herbert Brownell: "The plan contains features which I might well deem objectionable in other circumstances. However. I reluctantly concluded that this plan of action should be approved...