Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would also do that." Indeed...
...formation of a committee charged with considering admissions suggests that this issue will be of paramount importance when the larger question of merger is reviewed by the Harvard Corporation and the Radcliffe Trustees at the conclusion of the coming academic year...
Died. Stanton Griffis, 87, Wall Street financier and diplomat who built a large fortune in investment banking in the 1920s and 1930s as doctor to sick corporations (Paramount Pictures, among others), then went on to a second career in Government service, including a stint in 1951-52 as the Truman Administration's Ambassador to Spain, where he fought successfully for a reversal of Washington's longstanding policy of isolating the Franco regime; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
Nicholson passed along with it, not out of sight, as happened with many of his fraternity, but on to other things. He worked into the mainstream that he had been trying to divert, and started running with the high rollers. He now counts as two of his buddies Paramount Production Chief Robert Evans and Warren Beatty, his co-star in Fortune. Nicholson, along with his real gifts, has always had a canny ability to move with the heat. He has done it so well that now he is the heat...
...have done some research on the issue, particularly with reference to ABA standards relating to the defense function and the code of professional responsibility; according to those authorities an attorney is required to press all legally available points, his client's desires in the matters are paramount, his professional opinion, his own professional opinion of the merits of the point that is raised is irrelevant, and the only test is, indeed, even if the rule that is argued for is "unwarranted under existing law" as long as it is supportable by a good faith argument the attorney is required...