Word: conductive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ensuing six years, the State Department internal loyalty board pondered in effect whether Service should be kept on or let go; six times Service was cleared. Then in December 1951 the Civil Service Commission Loyalty Review Board recommended that Service should be fired. "To say that his course of conduct does not raise a reasonable doubt as to Service's own loyalty would, we are forced to think, stretch the mantle of charity much too far." Acheson sacked Service, whereupon Service appealed all the way to the Supreme Court...
...IMPORT PROBE will get going as soon as Government finds three top-level executives outside oil industry willing to conduct it. Former U.S. Steel Corp. Chairman Benjamin Fairless turned down chairmanship of commission that will determine what amount of low-cost foreign oil U.S. can buy without discouraging domestic exploration, production...
...Remember Pearl Harbor!" "For the sake of good relations between Japan and America we shall conduct a fair trial," said the Japanese chief district justice slated to try Girard. But the voice of Tokyo was soon drowned out by the growing uproar in the U.S. "Sold down the river," cried the Veterans of Foreign Wars; TO THE WOLVES, SOLDIER, cried the New York Daily News. In Girard's home town, Ottawa, Ill. (he lived there in the family trailer one year before enlisting in 1953) relatives and friends got up a 182-ft. petition protesting "a clear violation...
...staff a person who has contributed so much to the Harvard education of so many young men. During two decades at the Commuters' Center in Dudley and then in Claverly Hall his example and, when he thought it necessary, his criticisms have taught countless undergraduates the value of gentlemanly conduct and of directness and integrity for leading a good life. It was a pleasure to be associated with him for the two years in which I was a resident tutor in Claverly, and it is an even greater pleasure to know how vigorously his good influence will live...
Kadarj also offered Mindszenty safe-conduct to the frontier from his hideout in the American embassy, but the cardinal refused, not trusting Kadar's word. Some Vatican officials believe that if Mindszenty were to leave the embassy, it would mean imprisonment, and perhaps death. "The only question is," mused one Vatican insider last week, "should he choose this martyrdom? It would be the supreme fulfillment of his sacred mission. But he cannot offer himself egoistically. It is a question of practical timing and of holy vocation. He cannot submit himself until he himself feels that martyrdom will not unduly...