Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McCormack's decision to allow a suit in his name reversed the stand of his predecessor, George Fingold. Under Massachusetts law, a trustee may be sued for mismanagement only through the Attorney General unless he goes to court voluntarily. The Association for the Arboretum has charged in its publications that the Corporation "persuaded" Fingold...
...question, won despite hot-blooded opposition by Segregationist Governor Orval Faubus, who proclaimed on election eve that the three were really integrationists. Said defeated Candidate W. F. Rector, another moderate who was defeated by a pro-Faubus candidate: the moderates' victory "may give courage to other people to stand up for their convictions...
...Russians about Germany's future status? "Ja, fine," said the old man, "we can discuss reunification at the same time." Adenauer had not changed: with him it was still reunification über alles. Next day Adenauer admonished the "flexibles" among his own party's Bundestag Deputies to stand "absolutely firm" with the West against wider negotiations over Berlin...
...cash, forgo dividends and interest, and accept the hazard of a gradual decline in the buying power of their money, can get high safety and liquidity. Speculators can buy a 1-kilo bar for as little as $34 margin plus $63 a year on the unpaid balance, stand to turn a handsome profit if the price of gold should rise. In effect, they bet that the U.S. Treasury, which has been able to corner more than half of the free world's gold supply with its standing offer of $35 an ounce, will not peg the world price...
...Stand the Pain. After three years with Updyke on radio. Backus fell into a fat part as the judge on TV's now-defunct I Married Joan comedy series, whose reruns are still "in orbit." Discovered at last, Backus made 47 feature movies (best role: James Dean's father in Rebel Without a Cause). But Backus ("always too early or too late'') began his movie career at the start of Hollywood's slump. He often suspects that papa was right. Once that businesslike gentleman from Cleveland sniffed scornfully around the movie lots, pronounced one studio...