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...setting up the election rules for the Committee, put a limit of $10 on campaign expenditures for this office. When any member spends more than this amount, he not only violates the principles and spirit of student elections and his own integrity, but he is also committing a flagrant violation of those definite rules which were set up by the Council. These rules were published in the Union, and made clear to all candidates. If such disregard of rules is to be allowed, it will not only affect the present election but also set a precedent for future ones...
...true--they are helpless, but only so long as they keep Rule 22 as it is. The flagrant dishonesty of this policy has never lost it any support in the Grand Old Party...
...Government has failed to scotch the menace. "In some of the most flagrant and obvious cases of disloyalty, the State Department gave the disloyal officials a clean bill of health to the United Nations." Furthermore. State refused to give the names of State officers who approved such bills of health...
...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...