Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision, the U.S. court of appeals in Washington held that the Government's loyalty program-created two years ago by presidential order-is constitutional. Loser of the decision was Miss Dorothy Bailey, a slim, 39-year-old Uni versity of Minnesota graduate who was fired from her $8,000-a-year job in the U.S. Employment Service because President Truman's three-man Loyalty Review Board found "reasonable grounds" for believing she was "disloyal" to her Government...
...first federal employee to be dismissed after exhausting all appeal privileges short of the courts, Miss Bailey had been unable to convince the board that she was not tainted with Communism, although she had produced 60 affidavits to help her. The chairman of the board which ousted her, Republican Lawyer Seth Whitley Richardson, admitted that he had not "the slightest knowledge" of who Miss Bailey's accusers were or how trustworthy their information. The board had only seen the FBI's anonymous reports gleaned from unsworn informants.In his dissent to the court's decision, Justice Henry...
...majority, Justices E. Barrett Prettyman and James M. Proctor, conceded that Miss Bailey had been caught up in "harsh rules which run counter to every known precept of fairness to the private individual." But they decided that possible injury to her was not the central issue: "We do not think that the individual rights guaranteed by the Constitution necessarily mean that a Government dedicated to those rights cannot preserve itself in the world as it is." Anyway, the Constitution was not involved, since no one has a constitutional right to a Government job. "If [the President] thinks that under present...
ESPIONAGE Thank You, My Lord Preceded by the bearers of mace and sword, England's Lord Chief Justice, Lord Goddard, robed in icy dignity and a scarlet gown, entered the oak-paneled courtroom of the Old Bailey. He shuffled his papers, impatiently tapped the silver snuff box on his high desk. Then, mounting the stairs which lead from the cells below directly into the prisoner's dock, appeared Dr. Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs. The court clerk solemnly read the indictment accusing Fuchs of communicating "to a person unknown information relating to atomic research . . . directly or indirectly useful...
Harry Guild '50 and Charles W. Bailey II '50 placed eleventh and twelfth respectively and were very close behind the winners...