Word: assertional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assert that this historical attitude was erroneous. The nation grew none too fast. We can see today that all its wealth, all its strength, were needed to meet a succession of world crises-and we still dwell in a crisis era. Had we applied restrictions to keep our economy small, tame and pure, we would have lost the first World War. Had the United States not possessed the mightiest oil industry, the greatest steel industry, the largest automotive factories . . . and the most ingenious working force in the world, we would indubitably have lost the second World War. Were we significantly...
...which they called the Slave Labor Act. Taft won by a majority almost twice the size of what he himself had predicted. It might have marked the high tide of labor's political influence. In any case, the C.I.O. and the A.F.L. have not been able to assert themselves since as an effective political force...
...These actions apparently rise from a view that our national tradition of free expression is no longer valid; that censorship and suppression are needed to avoid the subversion of politics and the corruption of morals. We, as citizens devoted to the use of books . . . wish to assert the public interest in the preservation of the freedom to read...
...university in their refusal to answer questions. The rationale of those who used the Fifth Amendment was best stated in a letter to the CRIMSON from New York lawyer Leonard B. Boudin on March 19. "...In refusing to cooperate with the Velde and Jenner committees, the witnesses are asserting their constitutional right to freedom of speech, belief, conscience and assembly. The Supreme Court has not consented to hear such First Amendment claims in recent cases involving congressional investigations. That is not a reason for failing to assert rights which the individual citizen believes that he possesses...
...upon the First Amendment may not avoid a committee citation for contempt. Hence, so many witnesses in recent years have relied upon the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which states that persons may not be required to act as witnesses against themselves. It is particularly appropriate to assert the privilege here since it had its origins in the protection of political and religious dissidence in the Puritan period in England...