Word: flagrant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Five months ago the Mercury owed so much money that Huie was ready to close down. In time's nick, Huie found an angel: J. (for John) Russell Maguire, of Greenwich, Conn., who was operating principally as a Wall Street broker until the SEC forced him out for "flagrant violations" of the law. Later he made millions in manufacturing (Thompson submachine guns, electrical equipment, etc.) and oil. Last week Maguire's backing cost Huie the top section of his staff...
...much more healthily, Europe's businessmen are conducting an all-out campaign for "Trade, Not Aid." Last week, five U.S. allies-Denmark, The Netherlands, Canada, Australia and New Zealand-charged that U.S. tariff restrictions on imported dairy products are a flagrant violation of the worldwide General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). "It is incomprehensible," said a Danish delegate to GATT, "that the U.S. prefers to continue to assist us through dollar grants from the American taxpayer . . . instead of allowing us to pay in goods for dollars we urgently need to buy American products." The Dutch, even angrier, slapped...
...goes also in elections, and during the past week both parties have been hitting low. President Truman, for all his earlier accurate jabbing, has commited one of the most flagrant fouls by blatantly announcing that General Eisenhower was "willing to accept the very policies that identified the 'master race.'" By this, Truman referred to the McCarran Immigration Law, which is "anti-Semitic" and "anti-Catholic," setting small quotas on Eastern European countries. The general, however, has never approved of this law. On the same day that Truman's letter hit the presses, Eisenhower stated "The McCarran Law must be rewritten...
...could be granted. But "the Act still prohibits other forms of union security" because "Congress arbitrarily said 'we know better than unions what is good for employees.' The result could have been predicted. Today several thousand employers and several million employees are operating under bootleg agreements in flagrant violation of the statute." Although Stevenson did not name it, the prohibited form of union security which is now widely bootlegged is the closed shop. The Truman Administration has made little or no effort to check this "flagrant violation" and apparently Stevenson wants to deal with the violation by making...
...against his country and his country's friends," added aged Liberal Lord Teviot. The Marquess of Salisbury, Leader of the House of Lords, agreed that the church cannot proceed against the Red Dean ("he has not been drunk in the pulpit . . . and he has not been guilty of flagrant immorality"); he considered it "extremely doubtful" whether the state could proceed either...