Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conference, ran into a barrage of questions about the Army-McCarthy hearings and his executive order barring testimony on the now famous meeting of Jan. 21 (see below). Said the President: "I have no intention whatsoever of relaxing or rescinding the order because it is a very moderate and proper statement of the division of powers between the Executive and the Legislative. Now when I saw in the paper allegations to the effect that the issuance of that order could be used as a reason or excuse for calling off hearings, I was astonished...
Candlelight, flowers and wine at mealtime are good for the stomach as well as the soul. Aside from their esthetic value, they lead to proper eating habits and good digestion, reported Chicago Physiologist Frederic Theodore Jung in Today's Health...
...that the claim by a witness of the privilege of the Fifth Amendment may be "explained" by several hypotheses, such as "bad advice," "fear and confusion," or "refusal to tell on his friends ****based on strong grounds of conscience." The result appears to be a certain confusion of the proper inference to be drawn from the use of the privilege, and of extenuating factors considered by some to mitigate, to a certain extent, the condemnation deserved by those who become Communists, or who perjure themselves by claiming the privilege under false pretenses...
...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...
...proper course seems to be clearly indicated by the statement of Justice Jackson in the majority opinion in Orloff v. Willoughby...