Word: stigma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consent decree, being a court order, gives Sterling's officers a Government-underwritten legal out. Meanwhile, to rid the company of any pro-Nazi stigma, the directors last fortnight got Sterling a new president and chairman. (Messrs. Weiss and Diebold moved upstairs to head newly created Board committees.) The new chairman: Edward Sidney Rogers, international patent lawyer and adviser to the State Department. The new president: ex-Sterling treasurer, ex-U.S. Internal Revenue Bureau official, James Hill Jr. Mr. Rogers' knowledge of international law will be especially useful. For although Sterling is relatively safe...
...loud that the Army had to act. From Washington it announced that Ben Lear had been ordered to make an explanation. Until it arrived, the Army would say nothing. Under the circumstances there was not much to say. Ben Lear might well have been oversevere: his sentence had the stigma of capricious anger, wounded vanity. But his objective-better discipline-was good. Many an officer thought it better to forget the whole business than make a nationwide song & dance about...
...worst Harvard-Yale fray no Harvard rooter gets up and cheers when a Yale man gets kicked in the groin. But that's exactly the attitude war breeds. I'm convinced that we in the United States have a great opportunity to take some of the stigma away from the war by doing something decent at the same time...
...valedictory-elegy last week, Martin outlined, patiently and soberly, what was wrong with Wall Street, chiefly: 1) the war; 2) taxes (especially the capital-gains tax); 3) a bad name on Main Street ("We are still suffering under the stigma of the Whitney incident and all that went along with it"). He also had a few suggestions: streamline the Board of Governors, apply "merchandising . . . energy and hard work...
...live so far away that several hours a day are neded for traveling to and from college. Such students are inclined to ignore sports and other activities because they cut into the time neded for study. Furthermore, students who live at college tend, unwittingly perhaps, to attach a social stigma to the man who commutes...