Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...restructured U.N. some appropriate muscle to do its assigned task. We recognize that it would be foolhardy to transfer power to the General Assembly as now constituted, but this should not keep us from researching the question of what the U.N. should be like in order to have a fair chance of fulfilling the hopes of people everywhere for a secure peace with freedom and justice...
...twelve women--who certainly weren't trying to be controversial--were members of the Civic Center and Clearing House, a tiny organization occupying three upstairs rooms near the State House. It has no paid help, and its director, John W. Putnam '33, pays a fair share of its shoestring budget out of his own pocket...
...moved that if a Federation of Teaching Fellows had to be formed, it should have a life of one calendar year and should exist for the sole purpose of canvassing every Teaching Fellow for his or her opinion of the situation. The results of such an objective and fair survey should be presented, with an appropriate statistical summary, to the university authorities in a year's turning...
...must be turning in his grave at the sorry use to which the noble principles for which he fought are to be put by the newborn Teaching Fellows' Federation. It opted last night for a long, ineffective and unrepresentative life, rather than one which promised to be short, useful, fair, and perhaps even merry...
Crossed Fingers. In fact, Brooke has worked effectively for racial equality. He helped prepare a 1950 brief that led to a U.S. Supreme Court decision to desegregate dining cars, and he has long been an advocate of fair employment practices in Massachusetts. Says Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin: "If you compare Brooke and Adam Powell on civil rights, you cannot immediately give the edge to Powell. Adam blocked granting of funds to the Urban League. He was absent for the vote on many bills, including civil rights bills." Floyd McKissick, CORE's national director and an advocate of black power...