Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SWISS SECRECY law, forbidding Swiss banks to reveal clients' names, is likely to be eased because Congressmen and SEC complain that it is being abused in U.S. to manipulate stocks, decide proxy fights. Embarrassed by bad publicity from law originally intended to protect accounts from being seized by foreign dictatorships, Swiss officials are conferring with U.S. on how to allow some disclosures...
Anticipating a negative argument that Oppenheimer's perjury "in order to protect a friend" disqualified him for the appointment, Kimball said that if the telling of one or two lies was set as a standard, "very few of the present faculty would be qualified to teach at Harvard...
Medford Evans, a former member of the AEC, alleged that "more than one or two lies are involved." He termed Oppenheimer "intellectually dishonest," and said that he had not lied to protect his friends, but had "sold them...
Murphy also stood on another explanation offered by State in the past-there can be no intercourse because "a state of unresolved conflict exists between the United States and Communist China," and travelers cannot be allowed to go there because the U.S. is not in a position to protect citizens who travel to Red China...
...foolish lengths to which high-tariff advocates will go to protect home industry were demonstrated last week in a case involving imported violins. The Tariff Commission sent President Eisenhower a recommendation to treble the tariff on instruments valued by the foreign manufacturer at $25 or less. The proposed new rate: 52 ½ % ad valorem and $1.87 ½ each v. the current 17 ½ % plus 62 ½ each. Fiddle-faddle, said the President, vetoing the boost. He noted that violins and violas of this type are made by only one U.S. manufacturer, Jackson-Guldan of Columbus, Ohio, which employs 30 production...