Word: undertook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pomerantz. As usual, he was representing a small (50 shares) stockholder, a Mrs. Lillian Berger of Boston. She, through Pomerantz, charged that Little and his family had been enriched by profits which should have gone to Textron. When Little took the stand in Providence's federal court, Pomerantz undertook to prove the charge...
...real-estate lobby's most energetic spokesman is a solemn-looking Midwesterner named Herbert U. Nelson. As the $25,000-a-year executive vice president of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, he once undertook to set the populace straight on the postwar housing shortage: there was no shortage at all, he said, just an "overconsumption of space." He was also the first man alert enough to link that stalwart Ohio conservative, Bob Taft, with the Communists-because Taft sponsored a public housing bill...
...races-but the party's national face mattered too, and that face last week was still sour, its voice complaining and its attitude carping. Even National Chairman Guy Gabrielson himself reflected some of that mood. Retorting to the President's boast (see above), Gabrielson dourly undertook "to remind the American people . . . just what five years of Truman has meant to them," showing how the country was really in terrible shape. Cried Gabrielson: "The American people will not again be misled by slanders and libels . . . They will not again be beguiled by extravagant promises...
...rocket motor laboratory at Malta, near Schenectady. The massive test-stands are hidden in a 3,000-acre pine forest well marked with "restricted" signs. Closely shepherded newsmen and photographers did not learn much, except that G.E. has been busy on rockets since 1945, when it first undertook to assemble captured...
...Therefore, in order to make clear exactly what the University policy was, and so protect the student organizations from arbitrary, unjust, and inconsistent controls, and from ad hoc decisions, Dean Watson undertook to state this hitherto unwritten policy in explicit and definite form. Dean Watson issued a report to the Council for consideration and criticism. Last year, a Council sub-committee revised these rules. Just recently, copies of this tentative draft were issued by that sub-committee to the recognized undergraduate organizations...