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...reference to the Watkins committee as a Communist "handmaiden" and his description of the Senate censure debate as a "lynch bee" were "contrary to good morals and senatorial ethics and tend to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute, to obstruct the constitutional processes of the Senate and to impair its dignity." Bennett's conclusion: "Such conduct is hereby condemned, and the Senator from Wisconsin is there fore censured...
...security program is to achieve its true purpose of protecting the Government and the American way of life, it must be so administered that it does not impair the things it is designed to serve. And among the things that must be protected for the Foreign Service is the tradition of frank and objective reporting that long has constituted one of the State Department's most enduring sources of strength...
...season. But across campus, in an ornate, walnut-paneled office, the U. of M.'s new president, Wilson Homer Elkins, 46, held his first press conference. Said he casually: "I don't think that a university can continue on top, year after year, in football and not impair its educational program...
Doctored & Fabricated. Would Lippmann's view impair Congress' ancient and valuable right of investigation? Not necessarily. Congress has a right to inquire into how well its laws are enforced and to loosen or tighten laws if it finds enforcement unsatisfactory. But Congress has no right to encourage-as McCarthy has encouraged-violations of law and loyalty on the part of officers and employees of the Executive branch. It has no right to set up a network of spies in the Executive branch, demoralizing it and creating a situation where the Secretary of the Army, for example, cannot function...
...between its useful and its sentimental sides." Little explained in a recent report on the collection, "As a separate library closely attended in its own quarters by a librarian, it gave excellent service. Now, as an element of the college library, it is known for its idiosyncrasies, which somewhat impair its efficiency." Despite its dual nature, the collection has served for 34 years as a convenient concentration of all pertinent data about an exciting, almost revolutionary, period in American history...