Word: government
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appears to me incapable of proof, inherently improbable, and entirely at variance with the character and standing of the Committee, composed as it is of wise and able men. It would be more accurate to say that the Committee on Admissions endeavors to apply standards similar to those which govern the award of Rhodes Scholarships: character, scholarship, athletic ability, and promise of future usefulness. If we as almuni were instrumental in submitting to the Committee applicants measuring up to its standards, we need not fear that Harvard may sink to the level of the University of Chicago...
Complaints of procedural irregularities in administering the election are invalid, the report declared, because no hard and fast rules govern the Council's conduct of elections. Absence of an iron clad elections procedure is regrettable, however, the Hearing Committee said...
When would-be Automaker Preston Tucker and seven associates went on trial three months ago for mail fraud conspiracy and violation of securities laws, the Federal Government marshaled an impressive amount of evidence. It brought into the Chicago court 73 witnesses and 1,000 documents in an attempt to prove that Tucker and associates had used $28 million raised in sales of stock and dealer franchises "for [their own] personal benefit and profit." The advertising of the Tucker Corp. was called a "pack of lies." None of the 34 cars made, said Govern" ment attorneys, had contained...
...letter received by the Harvard Radio Network yesterday, Wayne, Coy chairman of the FCC, revealed that "steps are being taken to draft proposed rules which would govern such low power broadcasting operations in the event the Commission found such operations to be in the public interest...