Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press against statutory attack, there is only one Federal law which guarantees it against attack by individuals. This is Title 18, Section 51 of the U. S. Code, directed against persons who "conspire to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution. . . ." Passed in 1870 as a weapon against the KuKluxKlan, Section 51 has since been used occasionally in cases involving intimidation of witnesses or voters, such as last year's Kansas City vote-fraud cases (TIME, April 11, 1938). Last week...
...open-toed, open-backed shoe for street wear. . . . Today you see millions of women, all over America, slop-slopping along the streets with not only their toes out, but their heels out too. ... I won't be a bit surprised if, some day, they just walk right out on you and shellac their soles and put bells on their toes and say, 'To hell with shoes!!' . . . All this makes me very...
...child of nine, while engaged in his "daily task of rowing a large boat one quarter of a mile," dislocated his right hip, was forced to remain in a cast for six weeks. His epileptic seizures returned. But deep breathing and arm exercises helped him while he was bedridden, and when he recovered, he went back to his training with no further attacks...
...week, Governor Olson's "administration" bill proposes to include higher income groups and unemployed. The bill promises State benefits to workers who are unemployed because of illness and makes allowances for dental care as well as complete medical, surgical and hospital service. Patients will have the right to choose their own physicians, and registered doctors will be paid standard rates...
...struggle for "democracy in education" the Teachers' Union is by its charter denied the right to strike. In the fight for less topside control at Harvard, however, it has used tellingly the chief weapon at its disposal: the keen sword thrust of reasoned criticism. And behind that thrust are many of Harvard's much talked of "younger men." The Union's fight for the retention of Walsh and Swoezy may have been in vain. But this year's trenchant proposals for tenure reform and complete departmental democracy may cut more ice with the powers that be than the Faculty Committee...