Word: condonement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science last week at Berkeley, a dramatic circumstance set the stage for an emphatic speech. Retiring president of the A.A.A.S. is Edward Uhler Condon, former chief of the National Bureau of Standards : for years he has been attacked as "a security risk," and last October his clearance was canceled by Navy Secretary Charles Thomas. Incoming President Warren Weaver is director of the Division of Natural Sciences of the Rockefeller Foundation, which has been attacked as part of a "subversive conspiracy" by Congressman Carroll Recce's investigating committee (TIME...
...With Condon beside him on the platform, President Weaver rose to speak...
This middle-of-the-road temper has obvious political advantages for the nation. In the 1954 election the most conspicuous casualties were men with left-wing records (e.g., Idaho's Glen Taylor and California's Robert Condon) and the whole McCarthyite faction, which collapsed with the victory of Clifford Case (denounced by McCarthy) and the defeat of some of those few candidates who dared to run on a platform supporting...
...vast areas west of Kansas, the Republicans showed a net loss of only one House seat. Two G.O.P. incumbents were defeated-but so was California's Democratic Representative Robert Condon, who last year was refused AEC security clearance to witness an atom test. He lost to Republican John Baldwin Jr., a quiet young (38) lawyer who campaigned almost exclusively on Condon's security-risk record...
...Subversion is not, as of now, a national issue. But the issue will affect some dis tricts. Example: California's Sixth, where Democrat Robert L. Condon is seeking reelection. Last year, Condon was refused security clearance by the Atomic Energy Commission because of past associations. Although his district is traditionally Democratic, he may lose to the Republican candidate, Attorney John F. Baldwin...