Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strike," were shocked. Said the Socialist daily Davar: "The doctors' action is unprecedented and conflicts with all ethical principles of the medical profession." And nobody jumped harder on them^than Histradrut, the high temple of militant trade unionism. It suspended the doctors' trade-union membership and summoned them before its court of honor for breach of discipline...
...game of Twenty Questions) the privilege should apply to all, indiscriminately, because answers to the non-incriminating ones might help a prosecutor to pin-point areas in which incriminating evidence could be found. Dean Griswold make a similar assertion with respect to the questioning of a witness about Party membership in each of a series of consecutive years. This contention presumes that the individual has been "in such a fix" that he could not safely answer all the questions, and at a time sufficiently recent to justify a reasonable belief that his testimony might furnish a basis for prosecution...
Subsequent events do not sustain the Corporation's decisions. One week after its announcement, Dr. Markham, whom, the Corporation found had never been a member of the Party, reappeared before the Senate Subcommittee and again invoked the privilege to withold statements regarding present and past membership. Harvard Corporation then suspended her, stating that developments raised a question whether her conduct merited dismissal "either because she had not old us the truth, or because of her attempts to ally us with her in her refusal to testify*** or because we can no longer reasonably believe that she is free of Communist...
...June, 1953, Harvard Corporation refused to dismiss Dr. Daniel Fine (a Teaching Fellow at the Medical School) although, because of possible self-incrimination, he had refused to answer questions regarding present or past Communist Party membership. He, also, had indicated that he had no proper ground for doing so by stating, to the trustees of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, that he had never been a Party member in his case also, the Corporation declined to order removal, but took the ambiguous action of permitting him not to be reappointed...
...Furry and Mr. Kamin have subsequently admitted their past Communist Party membership to a Congressional Subcommittee. The good, however, in this commendable action, was nullified by their continued refusal to name their Communist associates. Whether or not they may be able to establish that such action is permissible under the First Amendment or otherwise, it is highly inconsistent with their duty, when called upon, "to aid in the enforcement of the law." Such action should not be allowed to stand of record as the action of faculty members in good standing and entrusted with the guidance and example of youths...