Word: crackpot
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...duty "to hold a referendum in exceptional cases, where widespread feeling demands, or when a petition signed by 200 students requests it, on any proposal concerned with student affairs," Meeting on October 29, the council decided to abolish the students' right to the initiative because it feared that any "crackpot" proposal could muster 200 signatures and that it would be swarmed under with unreasonable requests for referenda. It argued that the council was theoretically a responsible group and could exercise "common sense" on matters of public debate. This point of view, many observers felt, developed from a fear of future...
...With two hundred signers, a three-quarter vote then bound the Council to act in accordance with the student opinion. Dropping the provision will enable the Council to act more efficiently, its leaders tell us. No longer will it be bothered by the "joker element" of students that introduces crackpot referenda...
...officialdom, demanding and pleading for a new trial. He got a break. The prosecutor received two anonymous letters from a man who said that he, and not Williams, was guilty. Assistant Corporation Counsel Clark F. King denounced the letters as a hoax and the work of a crackpot, but on the strength of them, Williams' lawyers got a new hearing for him. But still Defendant Williams' troubles multiplied. Prosecutor King produced a police handwriting expert who solemnly testified that Williams' 18-year-old daughter Evangeline had written the letters, just to protect her father. When he heard...
...Communist! Crackpot!" howled his political opponents, and Blandings was on the run. He ran the gamut of local political pitfalls before he was through, and landed in most of the social & economic ones too. At last, weary and harried but doing his best to look like Moses leading his people through the Wilderness, Blandings sold his dream house and brought his family back to a Manhattan apartment. "Just think," his wife sighed happily, "out "of a side bedroom window you can catch a little glimpse of Central Park...
...names were mentioned in the Senate, but Isbrandtsen Co. Inc.'s rough, tough President Hans Isbrandtsen did not deny that the ship in question was his Flying Cloud. Isbrandtsen didn't like the author of the letter, though. He called him a "crackpot." This week, however, Senator Magnuson was planning to investigate the sailor's charges...