Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...America was formed and the Constitution was written, the people were insistent in demanding that local government be forever preserved in all of its dignity and all of its safeguards. In the drafting of the Constitution, it was specifically provided that the right and authority of the states to conduct their own affairs should be preserved inviolate and there was conferred upon the federal government only so much power and authority as was necessary to control and regulate the relationships of the states to one another and the conduct of this nation's foreign affairs and unified defense...
That is where I stand tonight. I am convinced that our schools are local affairs, as is the police force, the fire department, the city and county governments, the habits of the people, the conduct of local business, and all the hundreds of affairs of daily life The right to work, leaf or play, to choose our vocation and to change our job, to guide the education of our children, to attend the church of our choice, to work with whom we please, to go where we choose, are not inherent and divine rights. These rights are our solely because...
Readers will find Albert Biderman's book an attack on In Every War But One, one of mine on the same subject published four years ago. While the conduct of American prisoners in Korea may remain a controversial subject for years, the following background, I believe...
...imposition of its standards. Army's facts (as I report) came from a unique, five-year study of its several thousand prisoners by scores of medical, legal, military and psychiatric investigators. In 1955, after more than two months of hearings before the committee, Army won. The Code of Conduct, embodying its standards, was recommended-unanimously-by the arbitrating committee. President Eisenhower promulgated the Code in August of that year. Since then it has been the behavioral standard of all in uniform...
Sudanese officials have cracked down on missionaries on the flimsiest of excuses. Priests and brothers have been fined or jailed for "illegally" administering medicine to the sick, or admitting orphans to mission compounds. Missionaries are forbidden to conduct services outside their churches, must get written permission from local authorities before leaving their communities. They may not build new chapels; nor may they baptize children under 18 without getting parents' consent...