Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atomic power for industrial purposes will challenge commissioners with potent new problems. Through its power over the licensing of atomic facilities, the allocation of atomic materials, and patent policy, the Commission will play a dominant role in determining the course of that development. Unless the agency recaptures public respect, its decisions can open the way for political brawling that will dwarf the Dixon-Yates struggle...
General MacArthur has disclosed a deep-seated schizophrenia with respect to the subject of war and peace . . . A basic split in the mind and heart of this great soldier seems to have characterized his thinking throughout his career. In 1931, when he was Chief of Staff of the Army, he excoriated a group of clergymen for their pacifist position . . . Yet this is the same man who . . . foisted upon the Japanese people a new constitution outlawing war altogether . . . The question is which MacArthur are we to believe? MacArthur the soldier, patriot, nationalist-or MacArthur the author of the Japanese constitution...
...your cover and article on Admiral Pride [Feb. 7] . . . I was one of his O.O.D.s in combat on the Belleau Wood during the tough part of World War II ... Pride is a modern Abraham Lincoln - the very soul of humility, inspiring confidence at every turn. He commands respect but returns respect in full measure...
...Roman Catholic Church: to go along with what the church says, believing it to be wrong in many of its teachings, or, to stand up for what one believes from the Scriptures and face excommunication from the Church of Rome. I would have a great deal of respect for Dubois had he done one of two things: truly believed in his heart and preached the verity of all dogma and actions of the Church of Rome, or, once stating his opposition, to have stuck to his points. As the case of the unfrocked priest, I feel very sorry...
Cincinnatians read him with affectionate respect, and when he points out a flaw in the city, they hurry to patch it up. When he wrote that Cincinnati's Longview Hospital was short of wheelchairs, 18 were quickly provided. Another time, he told about the hard time a family was having after the breadwinner was sent to prison for stealing a factory payroll. Reading "Cincinnatus," the factory owner called the holdup man's wife, hired her at $20 a week, and told her to earn it by staying home to care for her children...