Word: disregards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scotland Walter Elliott (served every morning by a procession of hotel servants bringing his breakfast, hot water, clean towels); white-trousered Cinemactress Marlene Dietrich; the Duke & Duchess of Windsor. No French gendarmes watched this year to arrest nude bathers, since business-hungry hotel proprietors had persuaded the police to disregard such trifles as strapless bathing suits...
...tendencies: ¶ To decide without a hearing, or without hearing one of the parties. ¶ To decide on the basis of matters or on evidence not before the tribunal. ¶ To make decisions on the basis of preformed opinions and prejudices. ¶ To act rather than decide. ¶ To disregard jurisdictional limits. ¶ To do what will get by. ¶ To rule arbitrarily-or at the other extreme, to fall into a perfunctory routine. ¶ To exercise of jurisdiction by deputies. ¶ To mix up the advocate's function, the judge's function and the enforcement function...
Snapped Mr. Cox: "If the gentleman had the power to fix the wages of labor, would he in the exercise of that power totally and completely disregard the ability of the employer to pay the wage fixed...
...said at once that the Committee's report is entirely unbiased, particularly in its finding that the President's rejection of the recommendation was not due to any prejudice against the social and economics views of Drs. Walsh and Sweezy, and on the whole through. Nonetheless, in its disregard of the financial element involved--which seems to be the touchstone of the affair--and in its careless statement that the President's ruling concerning the promotion of instructors in Economics "subordinated educational values to financial exigencies," the Committee destroyed its own case. There is little doubt that Mr. Conant...
...tutors, and the Sophomores will, in general, get newly appointed tutors who have yet to learn the ropes. Finally, the omitting of such a basic course in the field as 52, Victorian Literature, is difficult to condone, especially since criticism has always been levelled at the department for its disregard of preparing men for Divisional exams...