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...just returned to his post here after resigning as Chairman of the Wage Stabilization Board, stated that the present law should give way to one under which the President may select "one of a number of measures at the last possible moment" in order to leave the bargaining parties subject to the risks which are the "motive power" of collective bargaining...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Discuss Taft Changes In Law Panel | 2/6/1953 | See Source »

Adele Gilmore '53, who suggested a reevaluation of the Council executive board, will recommend a slightly larger board with limited power. She will suggest Council officers, who form the executive board, should have the power to select topics for general Council discussion, not to make judgements on cases...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cedar Hill Delegates May Propose Council Reorganization at Radcliffe | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

Heaward Hobsen, Yale basketball coach, whose team will also be left off the list of the select ten, has a solution to the problem that Shepard likes. Hobsen suggested widening the foul lanes to twelve feet. This would cut down a lot of the fouling committed during scrambles for rebounds, but Shepard likes another aspect...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 1/30/1953 | See Source »

Many pundits believe that the U.S. takes too long to nominate and elect a new President. Nobody could make that charge against Communist Yugoslavia, a dictatorship which is trying harder & harder to assume democratic trappings. One day last week Yugoslavia's Parliament met to select a President in line with the nation's new constitutional reforms. Sounding for all the world like a Balkan Alben Barkley, old Yugoslav Communist Jovan Vesilinov rose to his feet to place in nomination the name of that great statesman, that friend of the people-Marshal Josip Broz Tito. The Parliament cheered. Were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Who's Against Tito? | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

...Corporation can grow up with the times, perhaps it will choose "a man who speaks in Harvard words" and select Adial E. Stevenson as the next president of Harvard University. William J. De Muth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CANDIDATE | 1/13/1953 | See Source »

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