Word: rejecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator-reject. The Senate dealt finally with Frank Leslie Smith of Illinois. It rejected his credentials for a seat, 61 votes to 23, declaring the credentials "tainted with fraud and corruption" and Mr. Smith "not entitled to membership." Democrats and irregular Republicans were joined by Republican-leader Curtis of Kansas in the decision. While a cry went up that the Senate had invaded a constitutional right of Illinois, the Senate's reasons and actions went on record, in effect, as follows...
...evolved, but also because the I. C. C. felt duty-bound and empowered to have a hand in the actual reorganization. In their grudging majority decision, the Commissioners wrote: ". . . We were confronted with two alternatives. The first was to approve in toto the securities proposed . . . the other, to reject them in toto. . . . We should not, however, have been forced to make a choice of this sort...
...committee for the grant of the scholarship will meet during the first week of April to examine the applications and approve or reject the proposed subjects for essays. The result is to be announced...
...been self-consciously seeking knowledge, but it is impossible to expect it to consume all the indigestible efforts that now bury bookshop counters. The burden of a profitable business, they must go down in red ink on the ledgers of men who abandon discrimination because they fear to reject a work that might parallel the phenomenum by Will Durant. And the better authors, in a struggle to keep their heads above water in a sea of competitors, must produce more often if not as well, to hold public interest...
...before October 1, and all copy must be written on white linen paper without the signature of the author, but with some arbitrary symbol instead, a duplicate of which with the name of the author should be sent to the Lawyers Club. The trustees reserve the right to reject any or all manuscripts, and to publish the winning essays in the Michigan Law Review. Finally; the judges shall be two members of the Supreme Court of the State of Michigan, who are at the time of the contest members of the Board of Governors of the Lawyers Club...