Word: recommendation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attending the Conference were 65 representatives of college organizations who met for a three-day conference to discuss and recommend measures affecting College-student policies...
Wiley Rutledge did, indeed, have geography. Born in Kentucky, the son of a circuit-riding Baptist preacher, he had lived, studied and taught in nine states, from Indiana to New Mexico. But he had more than that to recommend him. Always more a teacher than a practicing lawyer, he had made one reputation as a scholarly law-school dean before he came to Washington, made another on the bench there as an able, hard-working judge. So on Feb. 15, 1943, hearty, dignified Wiley Rutledge became Franklin Roosevelt's eighth and final appointee to the Supreme Court...
...swing the N.M.A. into line with the A.M.A. in opposition to socialized medicine. But they could not budge a rock-ribbed Southern bloc in the N.M.A., which saw a chance to strike a blow for equality. Outgoing President C. Austin Whittier of San Antonio threw out the challenge: "I recommend that we take a firm stand in support of President Truman's health program . . . and make available necessary funds for effective support." That was a bargaining position...
...week's end, McHugh was being held for questioning. The U.S. Embassy was quietly looking into both the Siqueiros affair and the Zurnis death; if it decided to recommend revocation of the school's G.I. accreditation, San Miguel would be finished...
...fundamental reason is that for Harvard to take the course you recommend would be to repudiate the very essense of what Harvard stands for--the search for truth by a free and uncoerced body of students and teachers. And it would be to make a mockery of a long tradition of Harvard freedom for both its students and its faculties...