Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refuse to answer questions concerning membership in the Communist Party or in other political organizations. Some people may infer from their statement that Professors Chafee and Sutherland believe that no loyal American should invoke the privilege and refuse to answer, and that there is no justification for seeking to protect one's friends and family. I do not believe any such inference is proper. In a book published in May 1952, Professor Chafee stated at length his opposition to investigations of political loyalty and his recognition that the privilege against self-incrimination may be the only method of an individual...
...teaching profession, it is not surprising that some university administration have seen fit under some circumstances to use this type of private compulsion. The man who is discharged for his refusal to testify in such cases, whether innocent or not, is willing to appear guilty. His discharge helps to protect the rest of the profession, most of whom are innocent and willing to say so, from the otherwise inevitable discredit by association...
...courts have refused to find witnesses guilty of contempt of the "Kefauver committee" when they refused to answer questions tending to convict them of certain State crimes that committee was investigating. A sense of sportsmanship toward suspected associates is not an excuse: the Fifth Amendment grants no privilege to protect ones friends. If a man feels that he has a personal code compelling this reticence, he must pay for his scruple by standing the punishment society prescribes...
...society where productivity is rising and income with it, where built-in safeguards protect the economy from severe blows, U.S. industry has good reason to believe that its markets will continue to grow with the nation. After the arms program tapers off, there is plenty work to be done rebuilding the nation's outgrown schools, its worn-out highways, and building all manner of projects to supply the growing population's needs...
...society where productivity is rising and income with it, where built-in safe guards protect the economy from severe blows, U.S. industry has good reason to believe that its markets will continue to grow with the nation. After the arms pro gram tapers off, there is plenty work to be done rebuilding the nation's outgrown schools, its worn-out highways, and building all manner of projects to supply the growing population's needs...