Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...national committee. Everybody was optimistic and harmonious, especially at the $100-a-plate dinner. But two mild family quarrels were noted: ¶ Facing an old and troublesome problem, he national committee worked out a face-saving compromise on the party's "loyalty oath." The meaningless new rule assumes that state Democratic organizations will place the nominees of the national convention on the state ballot under the Democratic symbol; it eliminates the old provision requiring a pledge by individual delegates. But not long after the compromise was approved, former National Chairman Stephen Mitchell, a chief adviser to Stevenson, said...
...permitted to tangle with Philadel phia Toughie Joe Rowan in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, New York boxing commissioners studied his record care fully, reminded themselves that he had beaten such rough customers as Joey Maxim, Paddy Young and Chuck Spieser, and decided to overlook their rule against boys under 20 going ten rounds...
Changing the Rule. In 1929's wide-open trading, brokers had wide latitude, could set margin requirements as low as 20%. Stock pools, and a hundred other maneuvers to manipulate the market, were part of the game. Even companies themselves helped pyramid the shaky market, dumping in funds for margin buying. When the funds were pulled out, it helped bring on the collapse...
Thomas D. Bolles, Director of Athletics, concurred, explaining that the only exception to the rule forbidding playoffs of Ivy League deadlocks were made for basketball, where a league champion must be selected to play in the NCAA tournament...
Sometime after Dec. 15 Judge Aldrich will begin consideration of a verdict. How long he will take to rule is uncertain. Besides the briefs and testimony records he has also been asked to read a long list of documents...