Word: rejecting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decisive two-or three-minute interviews. Wallis checks every budget, red-penciling items he thinks too high. Models of every important set are carried in to be demonstrated to him. The mild, incessant hum of well-routined activity is occasionally broken by stormy story conferences. Producer Wallis may reject other men's ideas but he rarely enforces his own. His success as an executive rests on a shrewd instinct in selecting men. Under him, Warner Bros, have acquired a reputation for daring experiments, a reputation largely due to Wallis' eclectic tastes. In recent months, he has pioneered with...
...replace laws ignominiously thrown out by the Supreme Court is typical of his underhand methods. If he had sufficient courage to brave the political blast, he would come out in favor of a constitutional amendment to legalize Hot Oil, Guffey Coal, and A.A.A. The people could then endorse or reject his theories of government and would be able to decide for themselves whether or not they wanted a planned economy and governmental regulation or industry. These fundamental issues, which differ widely from ideals that Americans have hitherto cherished, must not be thrust down the national throat by a slavishly subservient...
Harvard has time on its side and time is the father of prestige. Harvard can afford to listen patiently to all the prevailing pro's and con's. It can reject them because it tried them out two centuries or three centuries ago and found them wanting. It can become their champion because it discovered that they were reasonable and that they worked while Cromwell was still wrangling with the Crown for the sovereignty of England...
...chartering Lincoln as a "University" in 1921. If Negroes wanted to study law, said they, Lincoln should teach it. NAACP attorneys demanded to know how the State of Missouri could blow hot by claiming that its black and white colleges were equal, blow cold by allowing its University to reject Lincoln credits. That Lincoln was itself a "University" they denied, recalling that the $500,000 granted it to set up graduate schools had been thrown out as unconstitutional by Missouri's Supreme Court...
Warned Rotarian Archie Palmer of London: "If you reject that [resolution] it will be reported in every paper in the world that Rotary does not care a snap of the fingers about Peace." Rotarian Palmer was right. Next day's headlines...