Word: caine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...member of the nation's Subversive Activities Control Board at a salary of $20,000 a year. Moved up from the Justice Department's Parole Board, Mrs. Lee, whose engineer husband has always encouraged her political activities, replaces another Republican from the Pacific Northwest, ex-Senator Harry Cain of Tacoma, Wash. Cain joined the board in 1953 as a far-right-wing Red hunter, gradually shifted his position until he bitterly criticized the Administration's loyalty-security program as too inflexible, finally resigned...
...happy family of a Negro chauffeur in a Southern town. To them, the Supreme Court's decision comes hard. The father, a nonentity in his white boss's house but a patriarch in his own, is simply distressed by the news: "I don' know . . . But I cain't see Saul goin' to school wid white kids ... I cain't see me sittin' side o' Mistah Charles on the bus neitha . . I think they's plenty mo' feel the same way. I hope they don' push...
...nonsensitive position, there are orderly procedures for dismissal other than the 1950 act. This reasoning was concurred in by Chief Justice Warren and Justices Douglas, Black, Frankfurter and Burton. It was applauded by such advocates as the American Civil Liberties Union and Washington's ex-Senator Harry Cain, who, as a member of the Subversive Activities Control Board, has become a latter-day civil libertarian. Cain called the Cole case decision "the best American good sense I have heard in a long time...
...vain effort to make learning seem as much fun as dancing or basketball. When that fails, they add more and more practical courses. But chances are, says Green, that if a student gets an F in English he will also get an F in shop. "If students raise Cain in algebra, they break tools and bore holes in workbenches and cut off fingers." As for the much touted "valuable social experience" a pupil gets in school, "the values which are inculcated turn out to be largely these: a firm conviction that one can get by without working; an idea that...
...JAMES M. CAIN...