Word: disregarded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Organized labor struck against the mobilization program last week. At a sullen, midnight meeting of the Wage Stabilization Board, outvoted, unable to get their demands, labor's three WSB delegates went into an elaborate huff and quit the board. By their drastic action, taken with apparent disregard for the consequences, labor's bosses brought half of the Administration's price-wage machinery to a standstill, confronted War Mobilizer Charles Wilson with a war in his own backyard, imperiled the nation's whole economy...
Whitney's disregard of alumni status would detract from reports that Endicott "Chub" Peabody '41, Harvard's last All-American, was a strong candidate for the vacant Directorship. Peabody was prominently mentioned by the old-guard group who believed that the job should be kept in the Harvard family. He is a member of the Whitney committee...
...Office, though some groups have protested that, with the current Red Scare hysteria, such a system might jeopardize the careers of individual members. The Student Council asked that all these regulations, plus another that forbids appearances on commercial radio and T.V. programs, be junked. The Faculty Committee chose to disregard all of the Council objections, even in those cases where it had power to make the changes...
...Christmas Blubber." With gay disregard of military protocol, Molly had drawn up a big guest list. It included Mrs. Hoyt Vandenberg, wife of the Air Force chief (who was off on an inspection tour in Korea); the formidable Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, a doyenne of Washington society; Mrs. Cyrus Ching; Mr. & Mrs. Leslie Biffle; Lord and Lady Tedder-and, of course-Colonel May. A few of the guests were missing, but surveying the crowd, Molly thought it best to move to General Vandenberg's own office...
...Survival. A few hours after Chou's reply was in hand, Secretary of State Dean Acheson belabored it as "an outright rejection . . . still further evidence of [Red China's] contemptuous disregard of a worldwide demand for peace." Next day at Lake Success, Warren Austin summoned the free nations again to "united resolution" against aggression...