Word: tantamount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Admission to the bar is tantamount to election to State bar associations and even in such legal citadels as Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago, city bar groups accept women members. But at the florid marble building of the Bar Association of the City of New York at No. 42 West 44th Street, women lawyers have never been welcome. At one Bar Association reception for newly admitted lawyers, women were turned away. Although Manhattan women lawyers had met informally for nearly 15 years prior, it was this incident which served to solidify their organization into the New York Women...
...with no satisfactory explanation. One of its key policies has been to frown on any proposed extension of one airline or creation of a new one if it will compete with an established service (TIME, March 22). Since the Post Office controls the air mail subsidy, its word is tantamount to law and many a proposed extension has failed to materialize. Denver is such a case. Any new transcontinental line through Denver would compete with United and TWA. Any extension by United or TWA into Denver would compete with Wyoming Air or Varney, which now have all the traffic. Result...
There is nothing in either show to make the customer close his eyes tight and shrink in his seat. In this weather and with Divisionals coming on that is tantamount to a recommendation...
Admirers of Devil Montanez hailed his clear-cut victory last week as tantamount to a championship. Venturi, who succeeded Orlandi as the best Italian lightweight, last January held Champion Ambers to a draw which many spectators thought should have been a decision for the challenger...
...Colombia, instead, taken a belligerent course, reconquering Panama and the Zone, the prestige of Washington would have suffered as much as will that of Berlin and Rome if the Whites are defeated in Spain. This week, European observers considered the recognition of the Burgos Government tantamount to a notice served by two dictators that they were resolved to assure at any cost White victory and the capture of Madrid...