Word: kiendl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year, did $40 million worth of business on the Atlantic Coast and the Great Lakes between 1947 and 1952. Jarka's president, Frank W. Nolan, admitted that Jarka paid out nearly half a million dollars in petty-cash "gratuities" in the last five years. Committee Counsel Theodore Kiendl prodded Nolan into an admission: Jarka paid off not only labor racketeers but agents and executives of shipping companies to get their unloading business. E.g., a vice president of the Waterman Steamship Lines got $2,500 a year for three years, the local manager of the Holland-America Line...
Last week, after a special trial of the eight, set up by the Board of Education and presided over by Manhattan Lawyer Theodore Kiendl, the city got a verdict. Ruled Kiendl: since the Communist Party has "at all pertinent times [been] dedicated to the advocacy of the violent overthrow of the Government of the United States . . . membership in the party constitutes cause for dismissal of a teacher . . ." Therefore, said Kiendl, it was "perfectly proper" for the superintendent to ask the question he did, and it was the duty of each teacher to answer...
...have the right to be a member of the Communist Party," continued Kiendl, "but he has no constitutional right to be at the same time a teacher in our public schools ... If and when academic freedom is relied on to permit the existence of a clear and present danger of the injection into youthful minds of any subversive doctrine, it is no longer academic freedom, but unrestrained academic license...