Word: divest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both men and women. In Commons last week, Laborites attacked the bill with gibes and merriment, deplored any attempt at reforming the House of Lords on the ground that it should be abolished entirely. Anthony Wedgwood Benn, young (33) Laborite heir of Lord Stansgate, has long been trying to divest himself of an inheritance that will blight his political career by forcing him to leave the House of Commons. As his father listened in the gallery, he pointed out that the title descends to "heirs male of his body lawfully begotten," complained: "I am the victim of my father...
...Pont itself, and in turn some 18 million shares of General Motors stock worth $756 million. Yet while the trustbusters want Du Pont to sell its G.M. stock, they have never spelled out how it should be done. Neither has the court suggested how Du Pont might divest itself of all or part of its holdings. Some possibilities...
...problem it represents and the even greater problems it will bring. "This is not a question of what we want to do, this is a fact," a superintendent of schools in a deep South city recently told his teachers, "this is a fact, and we must start now to divest ourselves of any predjudice against the Negro race and to teach each child regardless...
MONOPOLY SUIT has been filed against American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corp. Justice Department charges that American-Standard (40% of the iron bathtubs, 38% of the sinks) "substantially" reduced competition by buying Mullins Manufacturing Corp. (18% of the sinks). Suit demands that American-Standard divest itself of Mullins stock and assets...
...January 1953, when Engine Charlie Wilson unhappily agreed to divest himself of his General Motors stock and took office as Secretary of Defense, Washington wiseacres gaily dismissed him as an incurable case of foot-in-mouth disease, freely predicted that he would be the first man out of the Eisenhower Cabinet...