Word: standing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week sallow, bigheaded Robert G. Thompson, New York State chairman and a member of the Communist national committee, took the stand and promptly ran afoul of the new Medina. Thompson had been head of Ohio's Young Communist League from 1938 to 1941. Had he ever used the party slogan: "The Yanks are not coming?" Thompson was vague: "Very possibly ... in all probability . . . it would have been consistent with policy at that time ..." Judge Medina broke in impatiently: "That's a regular formula. It's maybe this, and maybe that, or I may have...
...A.M.A. in opposition to socialized medicine. But they could not budge a rock-ribbed Southern bloc in the N.M.A., which saw a chance to strike a blow for equality. Outgoing President C. Austin Whittier of San Antonio threw out the challenge: "I recommend that we take a firm stand in support of President Truman's health program . . . and make available necessary funds for effective support." That was a bargaining position...
Pats & Brickbats. When a motion opposing the President's plan was offered, incoming President C. Herbert Marshall of Washington led the Southern bloc's assault: "If you support a stand against the Truman proposals, you will get a pat on the back from the A.M.A. But you will gain the condemnation of ten million Negroes . . . for denying to many of our people medical opportunities ... It would be wise to create an issue to make the A.M.A. come to you, man to man, rather than to ignore you because you pulled...
...this discussion were merely academic," he concludes, "I might well keep out of it, as others in similar positions have done." But the scientist in Haldane had, at least temporarily, vanquished the straight party-liner, even though his stand might well get him tabbed as a deviationist. "I believe that wholly unjustifiable attacks have been made on my profession [by supporters of Lysenko], and one of the most important lessons which I have learned as a Marxist is the duty of supporting my fellow workers. We are not infallible, but we certainly do not hold many of the opinions . . . attributed...
...Justice were becoming uncomfortably aware of Jailbird Gara and his conscience. Some 400 clergymen and laymen had signed petitions on his behalf. Pickets turned up at the White House. Quakers and pacifist-minded churchmen throughout the country were drawing parallels between Gara's crime and their own stand against conscription; many concluded that they were as eligible for the lockup as he was. Said one of President Truman's aides: "These conchies give you nothing but grief and trouble. They won't even apply for parole-they just sit there in jail making martyrs of themselves...