Word: dictums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eliot pointed out that the President's dictum contemplated the use of the "dangerous" Dies Committee "subversive" lists in determining disloyalty or sympathetic association with groups called subversive by the Attorney General. A person discharged from the government service for disloyalty, he stated, would find himself condemned in the job market and as stigmatized as one convicted of treason...
...with Holman. It is the gusher which produces the policy on Standard's worldwide problems. It is Holman who refines the policy and distributes it. Actually, most of the day-by-day problems are sensibly solved by subsidiaries on the scene. This is partly due to the Standard dictum: first get efficient and then get big. And it is partly due to the trust-busting days of 1911, when John D. Rockefeller's Jersey Standard octopus had its tentacles cut up into 34 pieces. Though most of the pieces have grown bigger than the old trust, none...
...Implacable Struggle. On the atomic bomb, as on every other vital issue, Moscow is governed by Lenin's dictum: "Victory over the bourgeoisie is impossible without a long, persistent, desperate life and death struggle: a struggle which requires persistence, discipline, firmness, inflexibility and concerted will power...
...they would help write good laws; he was not a man who wanted courts to invade the functions of legislation. Only last week he cracked out publicly against "judges today [who] attempt to be statesmen and interpret laws without guidance by the intent of those who enacted them." His dictum: "Law must be stable, and yet it cannot stand still...
...possible explanation for the hesitancy arises from some poorly times and ill-advised remarks by the Association's Director, Dr. Guy Snavely. The day before the meeting opened, Dr. Snavely relieved himself of the dictum that "if we have Federal aid we must have Federal domination." To that deathless relic of States' rights, he added a classic of Algeriana: "Anyone with ambition enough can go to college." With its chief executive indelibly on record, the Association faced the unhappy dilemma either of repudiating its spokesman or failing to express its own majority opinion on a vital issue. The educators choose...