Word: prior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee recognized what it called certain "extraordinary facts" in the case, including "a prior adjudication favorable to Mr. Glasser of the subject matter as to which he invoked the Fifth Amendment, a continuing harassment on the same charges over a 12-year period, . . . Indication of bias and pre-judgment on the part of the House committee." But the group found Glasser "unnecessarily militant," accused him of lack of concern for the University's interest, and called his actions "incompatible with the trustees' policy...
...proceedings against the three followed an almost identical pattern. On June 17, 1953, each was summoned without prior notice and without counsel to appear before an ad hoc committee composed of the president of the college, Admiral J. L. Kauffman; the chairman of the board of trustees, P. E. Foerderer; the school's dean, Dr. George A. Bennet; and D. Hays Sollis-Cohen, a prominent Philadelphia lawyer and member of the board...
Beset as he was by the EDC fight, Premier Mendès-France found time to keep one prior promise: an attempt to bring peace and stability to France's shaky, strife-torn North African empire in Tunisia. Mendès himself, in his first weeks in office, had promised the Bey of Tunis internal sovereignty and an all-Tunisian government. Last week talks designed to bring substance out of the shadow of the Mendès proposals began in Tunis...
...adopted by France during the past few years. In diplomatic language, they told me: 'The rearmament of Germany was proposed to you, you proposed the European Army. The European Army was proposed to you, you asked for changes. They were given to you, and then you asked for prior conditions . . . You got those too, and today you ask something new, pending a new Prime Minister, who in six months will ask for something else again...
...suggestion that Russia would have several months' time-between the French As sembly's approval of the emasculated EDC and final ratification by the French Senate-to talk "concessions" over Germany. Said a tough State Department cable to the British Foreign Office: "A new delaying condition prior to complete ratification [would convince the U.S.] that France cannot be counted on as a reliable partner able to reach decisions...