Word: granting
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...Committee also refused at its January 17 meeting to grant a request from the Cambridge Council of PTA's to use the M.E. Fitzgerald School for its regular meeting. Instead, Sullivan referred the request to the Committee of Buildings and Grounds, whose chairman is pro-appointments committeeman James F. Fitzgerald. Shaplin, realizing that Fitzgerald would never call a meeting before the PTA's scheduled event, moved that any available school be used if the preferred one was inconvenient. Fitzgerald complained that this move was a "subterfuge," to which the more experienced Mayor calmly replied, "We'll vote it down." After...
...Dean's report also revealed that the Ford Foundation made a special grant late last year designed "to provide followships for the aid and development of law teachers." This increase, along with other recent increases in the number of graduate students in the School, has given rise to the Committee on Graduate Studies which must deal with the selection of grad students from the many applications and with the development "of appropriate programs of study for graduate students...
Congressional legislation, enforced by the Federal Communications Commission, to make major networks grant all parties polling ten percent of the vote in the previous Presidential election equal and adequate free air time during the campaign would help alleviate the obvious discrepancies between the two parties' public relations activities. There is in this plan no attempt to lessen the potential of the mass media for good or evil. There is, however, the hope that by partially equalizing the air time utilized during a campaign, no party will be able to saturate the public mind with its "line...
President emeritus Conant, will probably "undertake a major study of American education under a grant from the Carnegie Corporation," according to a statement made yesterday by John W. Gardner, President of the Carnegie Corporation...
...member of the 1933 Reichstag he voted to grant sweeping powers to Hitler, but later got his Jewish wife out to England (in 1939), and himself managed to outfox Gestapo questioners. Named Minister President of Baden-Württemberg by the U.S. in 1945, Maier gave occupation authorities more trouble than any other top German official. When the U.S. military governor called him on the carpet for letting off convicted Nazis (he pardoned 2.564 in seven years), he growled that Swabians had been democrats long before Americans, referring to a local magna charta wrung from a Württemberg noble...