Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Authorize the Federal Government to "require as a condition of employment" that federal employees "shall not refuse" to answer questions about past or present Communist ties, thus overturning the effect of the Cole v. Young case (TIME, June 25, 1956), which limited federal loyalty inquiries only to employees holding "sensitive" jobs...
...Churchill's help in appealing to someone in the Macmillan party for a safe-conduct that would enable Burgess to visit his sick 70-year-old mother in England. Churchill refused (another British correspondent, over a Scotch, promised to make inquiries, but with little likelihood of a favorable answer). Though rebuffed, Burgess chatted for several hours with Churchill...
Then the incredible happened. Police arrived in Abakaliki, arrested Chief Obo-do for stealing a cow. The chief burst out laughing, cried: "Who owns all the people and all they own? Answer me!" But Obo-do was dragged off to jail and additionally charged with the murder of his wife. Last week, like any common criminal, Chief Obodo and four accomplices were hanged in Enugu prison after their appeal from the guilty verdict had been denied by the Privy Council of Eastern Nigeria. At least, that is what the villagers of Abakaliki have been told. None of them are prepared...
...Churches ever since its Fifth World Order Study Conference in Cleveland advocated recognition of Red China and admission to the U.N. (TIME, Dec. 1) In Hartford, Conn, last week, before a meeting of the policymaking General Board, National Council President Dr. Edwin T. (for Theodore) Dahlberg stiffly rose to answer the critics. Actually he sidestepped them by defending the church's right to take a stand on international issues, rather than specifically commenting on the China stand. Said he: "The church must in a sense function as the conscience of the nation. We are Biblically authorized to do this...
...surprise of no one at the university, New Jersey's Rutgers last week named Dr. Mason Welch Gross, 47, best known for his off-campus success as a TV answer man, as its new president. Big (6 ft. 3 in., 197 Ibs.), mild, mustached Philosophy Teacher Gross joined the 14,000-student university in 1946, has served as provost, vice president and acting president since the school's former head, Dr. Lewis Webster Jones, resigned last August...