Word: rejection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other major union meetings last week, the nation's mine workers (680,000 members) and railwaymen (370,000) took the same position. And over the BBC a somewhat chastened Frank Cousins made a promise of his own: should the Labor Party Conference next fall reject his view, he would go along with Gaitskell, who still seemed to be very much in control...
Diaz Lanz wrote a farewell letter to President Urrutia: "All those actions against me are due exclusively to the fact that I have always opposed an attitude which permits Communists to take prominent positions within the rebel army." The weakling President replied: "I absolutely reject Communist ideology," but within moments the palace recalled the letter, issued a substitute omitting Urrutia's anti-Communist statement. The government launched a nationwide man hunt for anti-Communist Diaz Lanz, but he got away, probably to Miami...
...against Hoffa by 13 rank-and-file Teamsters, placed the racket-ridden, goon-directed union under the supervision of a three-member board of court-appointed monitors. But Hoffa blithely declared that the monitors' recommendations were purely advisory, ignored them completely ("O.K., you've advised me; I reject your advice"), looked forward confidently to the day when Judge Letts's order would be dissolved by an appellate court. Last week Jimmy Hoffa got the shock of his busy life: three judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals not only upheld the bulk of Judge Letts...
...some A.M.A. bigwigs. Los Angeles' Dr. E. Vincent Askey, newly chosen presidentelect (to take office in 1960, succeeding Florida's Dr. Louis M. Orr), insisted after the vote that just as inviolable as the patient's right to choose his physician is his right to reject one. To Dr. Askey, the freedom to choose a closed panel is no freedom...
...tell you that, on the whole, his loss of all traditional religious faith did not substantially alter his ethical principles, nor does he feel at all obliged by his convictions to persuade the pious to abandon their beliefs. Incredibly enough, well over a third of those who either flatly reject all belief in God or else hold that there are no adequate grounds for deciding the question, nevertheless think that "on the whole, the Church stands for the best in human life," though it suffers from certain minor human shortcomings! And a substantial majority, though naturally denying the orthodox...