Word: imperiled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problems." Of the five new judges appointed, one has campaigned for the Nationalists in Cape Province and the rest are undistinguished, except in their loyalty to the Strydom regime. In Johannesburg, the Society of Advocates (a bar association) raised its voice in protest: "It is dangerous and unpatriotic to imperil, for the sake of mere political advantage, the great esteem in which our highest court is held." Editorialized the Rand Daily Mail: "History may yet record Monday, April 25, 1955, as one of the most tragic days in the Union's affairs...
...reply, the Government's brief insisted on its need and right to keep FBI reports and informants secret: "A large area of vital Government intelligence depends on undercover agents, paid informers and casual informers who must be guaranteed anonymity . . . Disclosure of these confidential sources would not only imperil the employee loyalty and security program but would also endanger the effective functioning of investigative agencies in the espionage and sabotage fields." A balance must be struck "between protection of the individual and the demands of national security...
...added that, contrary to the belief of Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey, confidence in the economy cannot "be lost in a day. The idea that candor would imperil economic stability is, almost certainly, ill conceived, if the economy were vulnerable to words, it would have succumbed ages...
...biggest change of all is the flood of pension money going into the stock market. Up to 1950, few companies dared put more than 5% of their funds in common or preferred stocks, for fear that capital losses might imperil benefit payments. Today, many firms have as much as 50% of their pension fund in the market, and most of it in common stocks. Dr. Robert E. Wilson, chairman of the $2 billion Standard Oil Co. (Indiana), calls the pension funds "the strongest source of new capital going into the market." Where Stanolind once had 60% of its funds...
...Francis J. Connell of the Catholic University of America defended Roman Catholic censorship and authority to decide what books are fit reading for Catholics. "Whatever advantages may accrue to one through the use of his personal freedom," he said, "they have no real value if they impede or imperil the attainment of his eternal destiny. Hence it is not an evil but a good when those in authority . . . regulate the use of liberty by those subject to their jurisdiction...