Word: formality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second time in a dozen years, John Lewis turned his back on the house of labor he could not dominate. Truculent and unrepentant of having formed the secessionist C.I.O., he had returned to A.F.L. 22 months ago in the hope of twirling its leaders around his little finger. The formal reason for his curt note of divorce was his split with A.FL.'s officers over methods of combating the Taft-Hartley...
...Richard Haman, a ranch manager, last week filed a formal claim to the water in all the clouds passing over his 12,000-acre Rocking F Ranch near Reno. He was not cloud-cuckoo-land-crazy. He intends, he explained, to sprinkle dry ice on some of the clouds, and he wants full title to the rain he may bring down, wherever it falls...
...idea took fire, and Weld carried it to Aldrich Durant '02, business manager of the University, who accepted the proposition wholeheartedly and gave his formal consent to its execution...
...same time, Album officials uttered their third semestrial plea for all delinquent members of the Classes of 1947 and 1948 to have their formal photographs taken (1) at Lowell House today, or (2) at the Sargent Studio in Boston; or else to send a suitable print already in hand to the Album offices at 14 Plympton Street...
Delegates from the seven Arab League states gathered in Cairo to discuss formal war plans. Arab League Secretary-General Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha told Cairo demonstrators who clamored for arms: "You will get arms-an abundance of them. . . . We prefer death to Zionist subjugation. . . ." The Lebanese Parliament voted a million Syrian-Lebanese pounds ($460,000) as a "first installment" donation to the "Palestine Liberation Committee." Deputies pledged one month's pay. Arab youths from Palestine were crossing the border for a month's training with the Syrian army, which had drawn near the Palestine frontier...