Word: slate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cadets charged, however, that such cribbing had been going on at the Academy for years among men who have since served in Korea, where some of them have died in battle. Academy officials replied starchily that once a West Pointer graduates and is commissioned, he starts with a clean slate, is considered "an officer and a gentleman." But if such cheating had gone on before, unchecked and unpunished, the 90 were being sharply punished, while others, equally guilty, went free. The cadets also angrily insisted that scores more of their classmates had cribbed, denied it and escaped punishment...
Wouldn't it be grand for the Grand Old Party and the nation if we presented a national and congressional slate in 1952 that provided at the very least constructive conservatism and a feasible alternative to the present idea-starved Administration...
Between the Truman muddle and the Republican fuddle, where are we? Nineteen forty-eight hasn't taught the G.O.P. a thing! I believe it's time for the Republican Party to clean house, and come up with a new slate; 1952 is just around the corner...
After 2½ months of manifestoes and loud demands for a voice in the country's mobilization councils, the United Labor Policy Committee chalked up an important victory. It got the right to name a slate of union officials to serve in defense agencies. According to George McGregor Harrison, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks and one of the highest paid officials (recently raised to $76,000) in the American labor movement, it was "very hard for labor to find a top man for one of these jobs." But labor managed. It found George M. Harrison...
...first step toward improving the slate, three Republican bosses (two of them county commissioners, the third, the sheriff) decided not to try for reelection. As a second step, the leaders made a surprising choice for mayor. Their man: the Rev. Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling, 66, editor of the Christian Herald and chaplain of Philadelphia's big nondenominational Chapel of the Four Chaplains, dedicated to Poling's son Clark and the three other U.S. Army chaplains who went down at sea in World War II after helping to save more than 200 G.I.s (TIME...