Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ought to be able to name his own cabinet, with the exception of the auditor and treasurer. "There is no more reason for the people to elect an attorney general or a secretary of state than there is for them to get the itch." He took a dim view of doing departmental business by commission, board or bureau. "After 14 years of Washington's experience with government by bureaus," said Republican Sigler, "we know it didn't work. Every time you set up a bureau, you get the business of government further away from the people...
...have German assets in Austria. For two years the Red Army has been seizing as German assets anything it felt like, without giving the Allies a specific list of properties. Some of the properties grabbed by the Russians as German assets really belong to Austrians, in the U.S.-British view. Said Marshall: "Exactly what is it the Soviet Union wants from Austria? What properties, interests or values? . . . Both the Austrian people and the Allies are entitled to know what the claim...
...into office on a small number of votes by capitalizing on the failure of the large group of voters who in any case will not indicate their preference." In light of the interlocking nature of the Report's recommendations the threatened rejection of this point of view would in effect violate the total spirit. It is to be hoped that the Council will forsake complex balloting experiments for the authoritative proposals its special committee has evolved only after the most careful consideration...
...same time, the staff of the publication in question released a statement expressing "surprise that the Faculty finds itself unable to grant final clearance to the New Student," in view of the fact that "the staff has answered all questions put to it by Dean Watson and will be glad to answer any further question which University officials may have." The release noted also that continued postponement of the Faculty decision seriously hampers circulation chances of the New Student in the University. "We are always glad to cooperate with the committee, and we hope that the present restriction will soon...
Under Dean Pound there gradually evolved a whole new concept of the law. Formerly, the law was treated as an isolated field of study. Dean Pound realized that this view left law out of touch with life, and hence he insisted that the law be taught in forms of its relationship with other fields of human endeavor. Thus the law must be thought of as a positive factor in the political and sociological structure of civilization...