Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Amended Senator Homer Capehart's standby controls bill, gave Congress, not the President, the power to throw the switch on controls in case of a grave national emergency, then passed the bill and sent it on to the House...
...Communist before March 1, 1951. Actually, said the Corporation, he was a member until 1947. Even so, he "at no time permitted his connection with the party to affect his teaching, nor has he attempted otherwise to influence the political thinking of his students." One incident, however, did seem "grave misconduct" in the Corporation's eyes: as an officer of the American Association of Scientific Workers, "he told an investigating agent in 1944 that he had no reason to believe an applicant for a position for classified Government work had been a member of the Communist Party, although...
...resolution introduced in the House called the decision by the Corporation "illogical, unwise, and posing problems of grave concern to the citizens of this Commonwealth." It termed the attitudes of Furry and the other faculty members retained "an unjust reflection on the patriotism of the teaching profession as a whole...
Last week Romulo announced that he had resigned his diplomatic jobs and would battle President Quirino for the Liberals' presidential nomination. He was running, said his letter of resignation, because "political confusion, social decay, and a noticeably growing lack of public confidence in government have created a . . . grave national peril." Replied Quirino the next day: "I have decided for the nomination and I shall get it." Countered Romulo, no longer polite to his former boss: "This is the Führer speaking...
...Public power is here and it is going to stay. I don't agree with some people who say the Government should get out of the power business. It would be a grave policy error to support that type of program . . . We will continue, within the limits that the national budget will permit, with construction of such projects as are economically feasible and fall within the proper category of federal projects. [But] we will encourage to the utmost extent possible the construction and management of facilities by the states, municipalities, public agencies and private enterprise...