Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the proposals, they insisted on "the rule of candor and full disclosure in connection with overseas research...
...accept "any money or thing of value" intended to influence his action on any pending issue. He is also prohibited from accepting compensation for helping to procure "any contract" from any U.S. agency. But what is a "thing of value"-and what constitutes influence? Today most legislators follow the rule of accepting as gifts only "what can be eaten or smoked in a day." Others set some monetary limit, for example, $5. Quips Ohio Senator Stephen Young: "I arbitrarily declare every bottle of bourbon worth...
Thomas Jefferson urged that, "where the private interests of a member are concerned in a bill or question, he is to withdraw." Almost nobody follows Jefferson's rule. Argues Minnesota's Senator McCarthy: "For the most part, the gain to the individual Congressman includes the advancement of an interest that is shared by many other persons, including constituents. Consequently all of these would be unrepresented and would suffer if the individual member refrained...
...fifth course plan did not raise these problems. "An additional [fifth] course can be ignored as far as many of the rule books are concerned," Norr pointed...
...requested to do so." This statement, however, is not wholly correct. Harvard keeps a record of the officers of all student organizations, and reserves the right of access to membership lists of political organizations, though this right is rarely exercised. It is unclear, therefore, whether the court would rule that Harvard is unable to comply with a possible HUAC order...