Word: unfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unfit for Service...
...White on Feb. 6, 1946, after the Senate had confirmed his new appointment. On receiving the dossier, he reportedly conferred with State Secretary James Byrnes and Treasury Secretary Fred Vinson. Vinson then went into a huddle with Hoover and Attorney General Tom Clark. All three agreed White was "unfit for service...
According to Moore, the HYRC supported statements made by Pusey and the Corporation on three points on which the other members of the committee would not agree: 1) Communism is ipso facto unfit to teach. 2) A Congressional Committee has the right to investigate an educational institution so long as its investigation is conducted on the principles of justice and consideration for the individual. 3) Anyone who uses the Fifth Amendment to keep from testifying should be carefully scrutinized...
...Church of England's "bold, bad bishop" of Birmingham (until his retirement last May), who alarmed and angered his fellow churchmen for 29 years by publicly denouncing the doctrine of the virgin birth and the existence of Adam and Eve, advocating strict birth control, euthanasia, sterilization of "the unfit"; in Hurstpierpoint. England...
Thomas E. Dewey decided that New York's Acting Lieutenant Governor Arthur Wicks was unfit, because of his visits to imprisoned Labor Racketeer Joseph Fay (TIME, Oct. 12). Promptly, Dewey called a special session of the legislature to boot out Wicks as majority leader and temporary president of the state senate. The Dewey forces thought that they had ihe support of nearly all the 37 Republican senators. But Dewey's quick-kick attempt was blocked...