Word: unfitness
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...Dare They Go? The basic differences between McCarthy and the spirit of the Senate shone most clearly in an exchange between Watkins and McCarthy about the role of the Senate investigator. Taking off from McCarthy's celebrated attack on Brigadier General Ralph Zwicker (when he said Zwicker was unfit to wear a general's uniform), Watkins asked McCarthy: "What is your view with respect to the right of Senators to lecture witnesses, or sort of pass judgment on them, whether they are guilty and all that sort of thing, in connection with these hearings?" Replied Joe: "I think...
...Chadwick read the entire transcript of the hearing in which McCarthy called Brigadier General Ralph Zwicker unfit to wear the U.S. uniform. Then Chadwick put into the record the impressive list of General Zwicker's medals and citations. Williams said nothing...
France featured a group show of such grand old men as Rouault, Matisse and Derain, together with a raggle-taggle of young abstractionists clearly unfit to maintain the greatness of the School of Paris...
...Churchill had told his faith ful squire Anthony Eden that he intended to retire soon after the Queen's return from her round-the-world tour. He was mortally tired; he still had his great moments, but the aftereffects of a stroke last year had left him often unfit to conduct the daily business of government...
R.P.J. president Livingston W. Housten immediately announced that the matter would be referred to the trustees for a final decision. At the beginning of the 1953-54 school year, Levy was officially dismissed as "unfit" for his position...