Word: quasi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cooperative sales agency for grain growers. Last week's development: the Senate Lobby Committee summoned Julius Howland Barnes to tell what, if anything, he knew of a secret widespread movement among private grain commission men to "restrain the Federal Farm Board," to undermine its attempts to establish a quasi-official enterprise competitive with private business...
...Watch and Ward Society removes all possibility of his being put in an anomalous position when he takes up the active duties of House Master next fall. As House Master he will in a way officially represent a relatively large group of Harvard mon, and his connection with a quasi-political organization such as the Watch and Ward might well be misinterpreted as lending a sort of Harvard support...
Reorganization. "Reorganization is a necessity of sound administration. . . . The presentation of any specific plan enlivens opposition from every official whose authority may be curtailed ... of citizens who are selfishly interested. ... All administrative activities should be placed in groups under singleheaded responsibility ... while quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial functions should be removed from, individual authority and assigned to boards and commissions. ... It is desirable that we first have experience with these groups in action before we create new departments. ... I can see no hope for sound reorganization unless Congress be willing to delegate its authority to the executive who should...
Darling, final speaker for the losers, denied that any quasi-contractual recovery may be had, and summed up the case for the state...
Hauley, final speaker of the evening, maintained that a quasi-contractual recovery might be had, and summed up the case for the petitioner...