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Cunning Men. It took Dewey three ballots to regain the nomination in 1948 over Ohio's Robert Taft, Minnesota's Harold Stassen, Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg and California's Earl Warren-and the nomination was considered tantamount to election. The nation seemed weary of the frenetic days of New Deal innovation and the burdens of war and postwar readjustment. Harry Truman was a feeble contrast to the fallen F.D.R., and the Democratic Party was split (Strom Thurmond had deserted to run as a right-wing candidate, Henry Wallace as a left-wing challenger). Voters yearned...
...Ankara as college and high school students went on a rampage, and Demirel reluctantly considered imposing martial law. The reason he hesitated was that his Justice Party has a narrow margin in Parliament (225 to 220), and its rejection of a proposal to proclaim martial law would be tantamount to a vote of no confidence. At week's end the fate of the airmen was still unknown...
...Rights and Responsibilities, was a misnomer. The Committee was not concerned with anyone's rights or responsibilities. It was concerned with punishing students, not investigating student claims; it was roughly equivalent to a criminal court. A real committee of rights and responsibilities, of course, ought to have been tantamount to arbitration. Significantly, the CRR had the trappings and forms of arbitration, but its substance was always simple punishment...
Christopher Hoy '71, president of PBH, said that keeping PBH open at night and on weekends is vital for many programs. Barry O'Connell, graduate secretary of PBH, said, "Closing the building at 5 p.m. would ?? tantamount to closing most of what goes on in the House...
Lobbying against these measures while they are still before Congress, or resisting them when they become law, could be tantamount to severing the flow of funds from government to academia-unthinkable considering the financial pressures which universities are now facing, especially when most of them depend heavily on government support-Harvard gets 35 per cent of its yearly budget from Federal funds...