Word: rejections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next step will be to put Odlum's blueprint to a vote. On his part Odlum intends to let Atlas preferred stockholders vote on the deal in a separate election instead of with the common as the Delaware law allows, so that they .will have an opportunity to reject it without having their votes outnumbered by those of the common...
...mere say-so. They will come only after the slow, experimental, trial-and-error method which has characterized the development of the American school system. What is more important is the student's desire for a change, since it will be up to him to accept or reject and to prove the success or failure of any new plan. After due consideration of what has gone before, all that can be said for these proposals is an abrupt "Next"! No doubt, plenty of "nexts" will answer...
What made the waterfront employers close their port and reject one compromise offer after another to fix up this minor dispute was the chance to hone down Harry Bridges before he brings up new wage demands for his longshoremen this spring. The man who finally came through with a satisfactory compromise was the San Francisco Chronicle's Manager Paul ("I'm just a squirt") Smith, who also settled the costly waterfront tie-up 15 months...
...appeal to conservative financiers, even though no more radical an organization than the Rockefeller Foundation has recently begun to spend its capital funds. Most universities are still unwilling to impair their financial integrity for the sake of academic standing. But the solons of university finance would do wrong to reject Mr. Hutchins' proposal in toto, without scanning it for possibilities of compromise. It might, for instance, be an excellent idea to preserve existing endowments intact while spending those which are made in the future. Whatever the economic wisdom of Mr. Hutchins's plan, educational institutions will be forced to adopt...