Word: divest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent career of Mr. Meaney has demonstrated that he is a pawn in the hands of a man who has expressed his conception of the nature of justice in the now-famous phrase, 'I am the law.' . . . Can it be assumed that he will divest himself of the habits of a lifetime and administer his court with a justice unstained by politics...
...said that they could gain it only by giving all Asiatic peoples political independence and racial equality. The U.S., he said, might have brought about peace but had lost the opportunity; but even now it would be possible for the U.S. to withdraw from the war if she would divest herself of "the intoxication of immense wealth...
...order which required NBC to divest itself of its Blue network was indefinitely suspended. The Commission felt that, since the undesirability of two networks under one ownership was generally conceded (e.g., by its own dissenting minority), the Blue would be sold sooner or later, and it did not want a forced sale on its conscience...
Still cogent was the acid observation made by NBC's Niles Trammell before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee last month. Said he: "We are now ordered to divest ourselves of one of our network services . . . while at the same time, the licensing policy of the Commission encourages our entrance into the operation of new stations in the fields of television and FM. The older service of broadcasting is profitable, but the new services are yet to produce any revenue. Apparently the Commission favors our loss of present investments and revenue, but wants us to invest in new fields...