Word: standpoint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candor to their colleagues and equal candor to the public." The American Civil Liberties Union strongly protested: "Public respect for an observance of constitutional rights are impaired when penalties are meted out because of the exercise of these rights." Who, from a moral as well as a legal standpoint, was right? The Times, or the Civil Liberties Union...
...Governor Allan Shivers, who led his state to Eisenhower in 1952, put it on record that he will bolt again if Stevenson runs again in 1956. "I don't think he is suitable timber," Shivers explained. "I don't think he has the qualifications from any standpoint." Rather than support Stevenson, said Shivers, he would accept "practically anybody" the Republicans nominate, but he especially eulogized Ike for doing "an outstanding job" as President. "He has brought peace . . . Today we have both peace and prosperity. A few years ago many thought it could not be done." Did he intend...
...mergers and bigness should be one of keeping hands off." Thus, before Stanford University's 14th Business Conference in Stanford, Calif, last week, Harvard Economist Sumner Slichter took up the question of increasing bigness in U.S. business and explored it both from an economic and a political standpoint. Said Slichter: "The health of any organization, whether a business concern, a university, or a Government agency, is promoted by growth...
...prisoners they could out of their cells, and directed the preparation of food for prisoners and hostages alike. Associate Warden Bezzerides suggested that he outline their demands. In a shaky hand, he wrote: "Confinement without hope is pointless. Accordingly, we would like to discuss our difficulties from the standpoint of some kind of therapeutic treatments for the men doing time for rules infractions...
Three lawyers carefully studied the plan and found it "entirely within the law." Two theologians, five bishops and three religious superiors were consulted about it from the standpoint of morality and Christian ethics. Finally, with only one dissenting vote, the plan was approved by the 68-member board of the American Church Union, high church group in the Protestant Episcopal Church...