Word: reconsiderations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Said Dr. Schmitz in 1955: "My decision not to invite Dr. Oppenheimer to lecture on the university's Washington campus was reached only after long and careful study ... I do not plan to reconsider it." After the resulting storm of criticism, the university in 1956 welcomed Oppenheimer to...
This may be the first time that the traditional arguments against the democratic process, those of the unwieldy numbers and ignorance of the electorate, have been used in the name of Phillips Brooks and community service. The arbitrary decision of the Cabinet should not be overlooked, and if it will...
The solution that satisfied everybody was to borrow the United Arab Republic's formula that international agreements signed by either Egypt or Syria would remain binding on whichever country had signed them. Under this formula, Iraq could stick by its Baghdad Pact commitment until August 1959, when the treaty...
The two bargained on, as Secretary Brucker told it, with West Pointer Gavin holding out for the Continental Army Command assignment, an anguished Brucker pleading that Gavin should at least stay on in his present job. At length Gavin promised to "reconsider," for despite his personal ambitions, he still felt...
To catch her eye, Haynes wrote a second plea on birchbark, imploring her to reconsider. This time Mamie did agree to accept the makings of a coat, paid out $385 to have the 17 prime pelts, donated by two trappers' associations, fashioned into a finished garment (worth, said Haynes...