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...housecleaning. The brewery case, Williams continued, covered years when Nunan was boss of the BIR. Ex-BIR officials are forbidden by law to act in such cases, he said, but "it appears that this section of the law has not been strictly enforced." Nunan got around it through a waiver from the Treasury Department; Williams produced a photostat copy...
Barbed Hook. President Phil Murray of the steelworkers was the first to make a ceremonial waiver of responsibility in the complex processes of settlement. He announced that 650,000 steelworkers will quit working after their contract expires on New Year's Eve. Then to make sure that he was shorn of any obligation in the crisis, he got his policy committee to strip him of his powers to call off a strike until a 2,500-delegate convention meets in Atlantic City-three days after the strike deadline. Thus, an aging Ulysses in perilous waters, he had himself bound...
Just what suggestions are you after, Mr. Jordan? Abolition of eligibility rules, so that an athlete's usefulness to his alma mater will not terminate with his graduation or expulsion? Or perhaps an October 15 trading deadline? Or waiver provisions to prevent bigger conferences from raiding the top players from lesser leagues until other teams in that league have had a chance to bid for their services...
Ambassador O'Dwyer was left simmering gently in his own juices. He appeared before a New York grand jury, signed a waiver of immunity, took the oath, and flatly denied that Crane had ever given him any money, let alone $10,000 in a red manila envelope. Despite his denial, his reputation had been badly smudged. Washington hummed with rumors that he would presently be "nudged" into doing the gentlemanly thing-resigning his ambassadorship as gracefully as possible...
...request from a constituent. World War II Marine Corps Ace Joseph Jacob Foss, 35, Congressional Medal of Honor winner credited with shooting down 26 enemy planes over Guadalcanal, now lieutenant colonel and commander of South Dakota's Air National Guard, wanted to fight again. It would take a waiver of a rule prohibiting Medal of Honor winners from combat duty. Said the Senator: "Joe said he'd almost be willing to return the medal, if this would enable him to get combat duty...