Word: restrictiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gathered around their huge, elliptical conference table in Washington to survey the damage and see what they could do. "There are too many people," said the Auto Workers' Walter Reuther, "who will use this current expose of Teamsters' corruption to exploit their own purposes-to try to restrict the entire labor movement." The Electrical Workers' Jim Carey added: "It is absolutely necessary that we denounce and renounce such characters or we will pay a terrible price for permitting ourselves to be associated in the public eye with these phonies and criminals." Summed up George Meany, A.F.L.-C.I.O...
...Civil Service. To deny highly trained and experienced career men the opportunity to make and defend policy decisions would be foolish. No man will devote his time and money to training for the civil service if he knows that he can never reach a position of real responsibility. To restrict policy-making to political appointees would automatically remove the incentive which motivates capable men and women to spend years working their way up through the lower echelons of the government. The immediate result would be to decrease both the quantity and quality of applications to the civil service...
...Council's action, "It is quite proper for the Student Council to act as a court of appeal for inter-group disputes and internal disputes as well." He emphasized, however that the Faculty Committee on Student Activities--which will consider the problem--it is no way bound to restrict itself to acting on the Council's evidence. It may investigate itself and, in general, do as it sees fit in the matter...
Such is not the method, nor, we hope, the aim of any school. Education should stimulate thought, not restrict it. The great value of a university such as Harvard is that it presents many points of view, without attempting to force any single one on its students. By giving its students the opportunity to hear Oppenheimer, the University is only fulfilling its purpose in encouraging mental action and reaction...
...even in cases where the members are aware that their leaders are Com munists and have perjured themselves in filing affidavits-the NLRB cannot deny its services to the union membership. Principal reason, as outlined in a unanimous decision delivered by Associate Justice William O. Douglas: Congress intended to restrict the NLRB's role to getting the affidavits filed, left it to the Justice Department to examine their validity and exact penalties where required-but only "against the guilty officers." Practical effect of the decision: the NLRB's anti-Communist fire is only half as strong...