Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agree with the arguments that "duty" can not entirely be set up as an absolute, that many professors should be praised for their courage, that it is important to protect individual liberty, that the moral judgements involved are complex and relative. To state however that one can make no generalizations about a professor's patriotic duty to answer questions about past associations with communism would be incorrect...
...This kind of defiance... may be altogether unwarranted in law; it may also reflect a mistaken estimate of a particular persons it is intended to protect. Nevertheless, it is an open and candid assumption of individual moral responsibility of a sort that is expected of men and women in a society where the individual conscience is recognized as the supreme authority. It is a course more likely to produce public respect and self-respect than any pleading of a constitutional immunity. And if it does not save the pleader from prison, it will save him at least from an enduring...
...Formed a Cabinet committee with himself as its head "to protect the nation...
...Tariffs and Trade. GATT contained thousands of tariff concessions and a rule book on trading, e.g., a signing nation would permit free transit of goods covered by the agreement, would not levy discriminatory taxes to keep imports out. It included an escape clause by which any country could protect a domestic industry seriously threatened by imports. GATT was never submitted to the U.S. Congress; it was approved by President Truman under the powers granted the President by the Trade Agreements...
...opposition to cumulative voting for the Central's directors, an idea that he himself once championed. Young said he was still in favor of cumulative voting "in principle," but was against it at the moment. "Our legal climate," he harrumphed, "does not provide adequate safeguards to protect honest and efficient managements from the onslaughts of countless opportunists...