Word: conferred
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Tocsin has two purposes, said Peter Goldmark '62, a member: to get its ideas talked about, and to influence government. As an example of the latter, Goldmark told the audience that he and Robert Weil '61, Tocsin president, had been invited to confer with top officials in the Disarmament Section of the State Department. Also, during the meeting, Goldmark publicly phoned Congressman Miller of California...
...series of appeals ensued, in which Wyman's view of liberty became blatantly clear, as in his statement to the Supreme Court that "those who knowingly and voluntarily appear with, consult with, confer with, attend functions with and otherwise act in concert with communists or former communists in America cannot possibly have any reasonable right of privacy in regard to such activities...
January 13; President Pusey flies to Washington to confer with officials. Later, Pusey and vice-President Nixon issue a joint statement announcing Nixon's appointment to the new Albert B. Fall Memorial Chair of Social Ethics. "I sincerely hope," says the vice-President in a subsequent press conference, "that I will be able to convey my heart-felt feelings about freedom, virtue, and loyalty to my students...
...Confronted with a trying situation, in which even the appearance of undue self-assertion might have seemed a grabbing for power, Nixon conducted himself with poise and modesty, presided at Cabinet meetings from his customary chair instead of from the President's. When he had to confer with Cabinet officers, he went to their offices instead of asking them...
...their budgets by line-to-line scrutiny. Tempers flew. Already restive at being weakly administered by three different agencies, the state colleges in 1958 demanded Cal's kind of constitutional fiscal autonomy (which only six other state universities in the U.S. enjoy). They also demanded the right to confer doctorates-and to be universities...