Word: respected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only four weeks after taking the job. "Upon reflection," he wrote the President in longhand, "I have concluded that I must withdraw." His reason: his active service in civil rights' investigations and decisions, after sitting in judgment on civil rights' cases before the Supreme Court, might lower "respect for the impartiality of the federal judiciary." Likely prospect to succeed him: Commission Vice Chairman John A. Hannah, 55, president of Michigan State University and onetime (1953-54) Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Personnel...
...subject to local law for crimes that violate local law and have nothing to do with military duty. Far from being an abandonment of the serviceman, the procedure is a recognition that the U.S. has far more to offer the free world than strength of arms. In its respect for local law the U.S. underscores its faith in law itself, and thus by example challenges local law to be its responsible best. At its responsible best, a free world rule of law can do more to cinch for all time the high ambitions of U.S. foreign policy than even arms...
...still sitting on the Supreme Court, the excuse might seem more palatable. But he isn't. Although he can still be asked to serve on courts anywhere in the country, he knows that he can always disqualify himself from cases involving civil rights. Furthermore, his presence and the very respect he cites for the judiciary could have added substantially to the prestige of a vital but controversial commission...
...most effective weapons in the battle now being waged for civil rights in the United States. His rationalization for accepting and then declining the job is lamentably weak: "I permitted my desire to be of use . . . to blind me to the weightier harmful effects of possible lowering of respect for the federal judiciary...
...difficult to have much respect for a group of self-styled student leaders who spend much time throwing pamphlets under our doors prior to an election, but who become quite inactive after the results have been tabulated. I have had the most unsatisfactory experience of arriving for a council meeting at seven o'clock--the time for which they are called--and having to wait anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half for the meeting to commence. Sometimes the wait will be a full week, since often a quorum cannot be mustered...