Word: griswold
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Also receiving honorary doctorates of Law, in addition to Pusey and Griswold, will be Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss, Oveta Culp Hobby, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, A. Whitney Griswold, president of Yale University, and Wesley A. Sturges, Dean of Yale Law School...
...School Dean Erwin N. Griswold attacked the "corruptive investigating practices of headline-seeking congressional committees" Tuesday night, when he appeared with two other educators on Edward R. Murrow's "See It Now" television program...
...answer to a question from a Law School student, Griswold implied that he considered the phrase "corruptive investigating practices" descriptive of the tactics of Senator Joeseph McCarthy, althrough he did not mention the Senator by name during the broadcast. He emphasized at the outset of the program the difference between a congressional committee functioning in a lawmaking capacity, and more "headline hunters...
...Griswold also asserted that "no committee or committee chairman has the power to conduct investigations or subpoena witnesses merely because the chairman is a congressman." He added that because the powers exercised by investigating committees is that of the entire legislative body, the responsibility of investigation should rest with the entire body. "The investigating process is necessarily a corporate process," he said...
Emphasizing the urgency of the need for reform, Griswold charged that "the investigating power has been delegated to one person who has too often paid little attention to the Constitutional rights of the individuals called before...