Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within the next week, the Senate killed reorganization of the Interstate Commerce Commission, The Federal Communications Commission, and The Agriculture Department. On the last bill there was no debate--not one Senator arose to defend it. The opposition argument on these plans was that Truman was placing too much power in the hands of Department heads whom he appoints, and that the President did not strictly follow the Hoover Reports in his recommendations...
Whatever the issues involved, there is no excuse for such patent rudeness on the part of a minor offical of the University. That is not the kind of treatment an alumnus is proud to defend. And the alumnus is all to often called upon to defend such actions to his graduate friends from other universities. Name Withheld by request...
...earn a Ph.D. and they are as "rare as hens' teeth," Murdock says. When the candidate is ready, he tacks his thesis Luther wise, to the main front door of the University. The ensuing orals often last two days and resemble court-room battles. One professor is appointed to defend the candidate, and another criticizes him, Murdock reports...
When he was called before a Senate Banking subcommittee last month to defend a $10.1 million loan authorization to Texmass Petroleum Co., RFC Chairman Harley Hise assured the committee that this was "the first loan RFC has ever made to the oil industry." Last week RFC Director Harvey Gunderson corrected his boss. RFC has been in the oil business since 1940, Gunderson told the subcommittee. In that time it has made 82 loans amounting to $18.9 million for oil development. Some 13 oil loans were still outstanding and three more besides Texmass' had been authorized...
Yale's crack golf team raced past Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia this weekend at the Salem Country Club to gain a chance to defend its Eastern Intercollegiate Golf title next week at Princeton. The Elis whipped Harvard 5 to 2, after the Crimson had dropped a match to Princeton by the same score...