Word: unfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wisconsin's Senator Joseph McCarthy temporarily stalled Senate confirmation of the promotion of his onetime whipping boy ("unfit to wear the uniform"), Brigadier General Ralph W. Zwicker, to the temporary two-star rank of major general. Nonetheless, word went out -that the Army, supremely indifferent to Joe's spiteful blockade, plans next month to give Zwicker (already approved by the Senate's Armed Services Committee) command of its 24th Infantry Division in Korea-a job associated with two stars...
...Said Reuther in Detroit: "I believe that Mr. Beck's use of union funds to further his own personal investments is highly improper, inexcusable and morally indefensible." As for Brewster, Reuther said that if 10% of what the McClellan committee heard about his activities is true, he "is unfit to hold union office or any position of public trust." To guard against the occurrence of Teamster-type racketeering within his own United Auto Workers, Reuther announced plans to set up a board of prominent citizens to act as "a public watchdog" of his union's affairs...
...what the draft situation will be over the next two or three years. Each year approximately 1.2 million men reach the draft age of 18 1/2. In the recent past, about 13 percent of this group has not been drafted and about 22 percent has been rejected as physically unfit. Of the former group, a small percent belonged to the National Guard, but the majority escaped all service...
There are currently 187,000 eligible 1-A's of age 22 who are not fathers. Nearly 25 percent of them will be rejected as unfit, leaving 140,000 draftable. This means that some 21-year olds will be taken, unless the 180,000 figure is lowered. Some of the available 22-year-olds will join some reserve plan, putting additional pressure on the 22-year age group and cutting further into the 21-year-old group. If conditions continue in roughly the same manner, the draft might be calling on 20-year-olds...
...pleaded the Fifth Amendment would be put on trial by the union-with expulsion as the penalty if he was found guilty of clamming up to conceal his own wrongs. Snapped Old Firebrand Carey: "Labor leaders who adopt the Fifth Amendment when questioned by a congressional committee are unfit to continue as labor leaders...