Word: provisos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, trying to be conciliatory, Wilson offered to make a labor man a top-level assistant in his office. An aide declared that Wilson had previously made such an offer with the proviso that the man give the job his full time, but Labor had turned a cold shoulder. A labor spokesman said in effect that Wilson was a liar, no such offer had been made "by personal conversation, mail, telephone, telegram, wigwag or smoke signal...
...that it is necessarily mobilizing for war, much less for the unconditional surrender of the last Communist. The complete extirpation of Communism is a proper object of prayer, but hardly of international policy. The U.S. can readily accept what might be called "conditional coexistence" with Communist governments. The general proviso is that the Communist governments shall not be able to lash out on a campaign of world conquest. Particular conditions would include 1) international inspection and control of atomic arms, 2) dismantling of police and slave states...
...President Hall rules wisely and well. His door is always open to troubled students. He seldom loses a chance to plug for academic freedom, reads both a Republican and a Democratic newspaper to get both sides of every question. When a wealthy donor offered Ivy $500,000 with the proviso that it not be used for students of "certain races and creeds" ("After all, one cannot be a traitor to one's class"), Dr. Hall turned her down flat: "Life is like a college, Mrs. Marshall, you don't learn much by attending only one class...
...amendment by the Republicans' Wherry and John Bricker which would direct the President, if he applied any price controls, to apply them all-and along with them, freeze all wages. Instead they gave the President power to impose selective price controls as deemed needed, but with a stern proviso: He must also freeze wages in the industries involved. Thus if steel prices were frozen, steelworkers would have their wages frozen, even though the price of their clothing and food might still be going up. Such so-called selective controls promised more confusion than stability. Bricker called the provision...
...jury of his professional peers last week decided that he was unfit to practice medicine. Meeting in the New Hampshire State House at Concord, the State Board of Registration in Medicine "indefinitely" suspended Dr. Sander from medical practice in the state by revoking his license, with the proviso that after two months he might apply for reinstatement...