Word: shays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a conversation with Daniel Shay, investigating agent for the Commonwealth Board of Collegiate Authority, Wallach stated that he had obtained an extension of time for the rearrangement of his complaint against Feeney, in which the new witness will play a leading part...
Wallach contacted the Board of Collegiate Authority of the State Department of Education yesterday and spoke with Daniel Shay, the investigating agent of the board. Shay gave four criteria that an educational institution must meet for certification...
...days of the one-hoss shay and the stage-coach are generally considered to be over; a car is often not merely a convenience but a necessity at college. Cambridge's snarled traffic and winding streets are bane enough to car owners without the curse of the parking ordinance. The ban is no use to the firemen; it means nothing more than extra work for the Police Department; for students it is the last straw. There is only one group of people who stand to gain from the parking law, and they are the proprietors of the local garages...
...declining Supreme Court prestige, the appointment had its note of irony. In Franklin Roosevelt's vain but tumultuous campaign to pack the nation's highest court with added New Dealing justices, no man raised a louder voice for the White House enterprise than burly, boot-jawed "Shay" Minton. As a result of his signal service, he had been mentioned for just about every vacancy on the court that turned up in the past decade. But until Harry Truman broke the news last week, his name had hardly entered the speculation this time. Battle Cry. A son of poor...
...Chicago's Federal Court last week, Preston Tucker's company and his rear-engined "car of tomorrow" looked like the one-hoss shay. If not bankrupt, the company seemed only a bumper's length away. The court appointed two trustees in reorganization to operate the business for the next 60 days, then submit a plan for reorganization along with a report on the "desirability of continuance...