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...doubt and win reinstatement. Last week the Loyalty Board asked the President for permission to cut through the fog by tightening its rules to fit World War II standards. Instead of having to prove "reasonable grounds" of disloyalty, "it wanted to shift the emphasis and dismiss any employee when there was "reasonable doubt" that he was above suspicion. President Truman referred the board's request to his new Commission on Internal Security and Individual Rights (TIME, Feb. 5), which was expected to approve the proposal without delay...
...prevail*-Dean Acheson would be one of the first, if not the first, to be shot by the enemies of liberty and Christianity . . . These recent attacks on Mr. Acheson are . . . the same sort of thing that happened to Seward. President Lincoln was asked by a group of Republicans to dismiss Secretary of State Seward. He refused. So do I refuse to dismiss Acheson . . ." When he came to the final sentence, President Truman slapped the manuscript to his desk with the flat of his hand. That, said the gesture, was that...
Under an option granted by District Court Judge Arthur P. Stone '93 at the first court session a month ago. Thompson could take action or dismiss the case as he pleased...
Princeton decided to dismiss an assistant professor who had been indicted for contempt of Congress; Columbia not only denied permission to speak to Howard Fast, a left-wing author, but also refused to renew the charter of the college's chapter of the Labor Youth League. Princeton would offer no reason for its action; Columbia banned Fast because he was "not objective," and denied the Youth League a charter "because of its affiliation with subversive parent organization...
...fine disregard for the conventional flow of time. He can dismiss a war or a death with a sentence or two yet spend pages on a picture of Tabitha disciplining her child. This makes for a breathless narrative, intentionally short on description and drama. But although "A Fearful Joy" rolls this narrative past its readers in a headlong rush, it stops frequently to breathe, to question, and to laugh...