Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...member, the Bureau can properly force a resignation. And Mr. Leach can go contrary to the determination of his colleagues. But how long can the rest of us remain silent? How long must it be before the forces wishing to preserve a man's right to first class citizenship (until criminally convicted) exert counter pressure? Counter pressures which unqualifiedly announce that we are not afraid of the existence of two communists or communist sympathizers in our student body and that if some members of the community would take away their opportunities, we would welcome them among us all the more...
...Louis H. Bauer, president of the American Medical Association, was downcast. Of some 4,000 internists who traveled to the Atlantic City convention of the American College of Physicians last week, only 75 saw fit to attend a panel discussion on "The Internist's Relation to Citizenship." Dr. Bauer, moderator of the discussion, surveyed the sparse audience and reflected gloomily: "Medicine is no longer a purely scientific problem. It has social and economic factors. Doctors should take an interest in those phases as well as the scientific ones ... If [a] program sounds anything like talk about medical economics, they...
...People are puzzled today as to how you get medical care," said another panel member. He thought internists should "interpret and lead." But few conventioneers seemed interested in citizenship problems. While the panel met, more than 1,000 physicians pushed into another meeting room to hear a highly technical discussion of a couple of autopsies-involving problems that the average internist seldom meets in a lifetime of normal practice...
These are the standards of competence the report suggests: Outside his university a professor must avoid criminal or conspiratorial actions and keep from jeopardizing his citizenship; inside, he must shun in his teaching the three typical methods of the police state--advocacy of revolution, deliberate lying to convince students, and blind adherence to a party line laid down by someone else...
...Administration and Congress are pledged to eliminate second-class citizenship. Rather than rely on Presidential pleas or reversed Court decisions, they should present their local constituents with the strong bill necessary to end discrimination in the District of Columbia...