Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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I was fired for two main reasons: 1) I would not collaborate with the State Un-American Activities Committee, but resisted what I considered to be their improper drive against the foundation of our democracy-civil rights ... 2) as a citizen and social psychologist I have exercised my right to...
Such talk apparently made sense to many of the A.M.A.'s rank & file. While last week's meeting was in session, 136 leading U.S. doctors, all opponents of socialized medicine, sent a petition to A.M.A. Spokesman Dr. Morris Fishbein, criticizing the association's "indefinite and ... inadequate program...
At week's end, supercharged little Press Editor Louis Seltzer (TIME, Aug. 9) was cited for contempt, and ordered to appear in court this week before his old friend Judge Silbert. So were City Editor Louis Clifford, Reporter Hammer, and the Campbells. For a time it had looked as...
Two things helped him. First, his never-unified opposition split wide open, with various factions supporting one or another of the plans. Second-and this made the opposition split fatal-the law states that only one plan may be voted on in any single election; that plan getting the required...
Taking no chances, City Hall also set up a bogus Plan E Committee under a former city employee, to split the Plan E backers internally. Finally, officials used a technicality in the law to give petition sheets to Plan A supporters ahead of the others. Plan E people have the...