Word: professional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight for improved court systems is not one that can be-or should be-confined to the legal profession. Judge Vanderbilt candidly says that "where cures have occurred, they have generally been effected under the impetus of a popular revolt of laymen against the quaint professional notion that the courts exist primarily for the benefit of judges and lawyers and only incidentally for the benefit of the litigants and the state." Against the members of the bar and the bench who stand in the way of reform, Vanderbilt issues a scathing indictment: "I am convinced that the criminals, the gangsters...
All day long in Toby Street the army trucks rumbled. Some of the Toby Street folk were not sorry to move, for grim as they are, the iron-roofed brick cottages at Meadowlands are an improvement on much of Sophiatown. But many objected to being moved because they are black...
The shortage of teachers is in a sense even worse: if the present ratio of one teacher to every twelve students is to be kept into 1970, higher education will have to add between 351,000 and 555,000 men and women to its faculties. Meanwhile, the number of young...
The AMA has been traditionally outspoken, and its pronouncements have often been designed to uphold the standards of American medicine. Emphasizing the need to set rigid standards for physician's training, the AMA has also established codes of ethics and high requirements throughout medical practice, using its power to expel...
Old-style commercial announcers, many of whom have spent 20 years selling a multitude of products over the air, may be on their way out. Elbowing them toward the discard is a new breed-most of them entertainers by profession-who have tied their commercial destinies to specific sponsors.