Word: unfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate Subcommittee on Rules & Administration is sifting a charge by Connecticut's Bill Benton that Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy is unfit to be a Senator...
Squeeze. In Hartford, Conn., Mrs. Anna Katzman got two notices from the city: 1) the tax assessment on her tenement house was raised 20%, 2) the building was declared unfit for occupancy...
...Tidings, weekly Catholic newspaper of the Los Angeles archdiocese, charged Eleanor Roosevelt with being an agnostic who "apparently does not acknowledge God" and is therefore unfit to have headed the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. The argument started on the CBS program This I Believe, when Mrs. Roosevelt said: "I don't know whether I believe in a future life ... I came to feel that it didn't really matter very much, because whatever the future held you'd have to face it when you came to it, just as whatever life holds, you have...
...court turned her down, ruling that the two children should remain in their foster home because there they had found "happiness, love and security" for the first time in their lives, and because they did not remember ever being anything but Jewish. The court also found Jandyra Southern "unfit to have their custody or control...
...worst sort of demagogue, many people listen when he yells, screams and sputters, because they are afraid. In addition to the persecution of many innocent people by this man, the greater danger lies, as you point out, in that those who should be eliminated from public life as being unfit or subversive, can now defend themselves by stating that it is merely another McCarthy smear ... I am sure that when Joe started on his anti-Communist ravings, he had no idea that he would create the tremendous interest that he has. Once he had commenced his campaign for personal publicity...