Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arrested last November, he has nothing apparent in his record to justify Ulbricht's charge. In the calculated Communist view, however, Harich's record probably enhanced his merit as a scapegoat: there is nothing about it that would make him a martyr in student eyes, or even a symbol of resistance for the West...
...Guggenheim Fellowship enable him to work on Clamor, a book intended to complement his former writings. He was given the Award of Merit of the American Academy of Arts and letters...
...fighting the five other members of the city's School Committee in their efforts to appoint and promote 17 teachers to vacant or newly-created posts in the school system. Shaplin claims that the appointments were made illegally, without the advice of the Superintendent of Schools, without merit examinations, and without considering the teachers' qualifications...
...Schools, John M. Tobin, was ill on that evening and could not attend the session, as he is legally required to do. Acting as chairman of the Committee, Mayor Edward J. Sullivan seized upon this opportunity to move for suspension of the rules, which require the examination of merit qualifications and the approval of the Superintendent of Schools. The opposition of Shaplin and Mrs. Ogden was ignored...
...persistently complained that the Dean has "impugned all our motives." On another occasion, Fitzgerald had CRIMSON photographers ejected from a committee meeting. He insists that, examinations or not, Cambridge residents should be given preference for teaching positions. With just as much rigor, he opposes the merit system, claiming that it is the "greatest fraud ever perpetrated on the people of Cambridge...