Word: unfitness
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...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...
...McCarthy-Dorgan bill to outlaw the Party came up first in a hectic March 14 hearing before the Committee on Constitutional Law. Dorgan accused President Conant of refusing "to remove Communists from his teaching staff," and mentioned Harlow Chapley, Professor of Astronomy, as unfit to teach because of alleged Communist affiliations ("alleged" referring to Senator McCarthy's charges against Shapley.) Representative Meyer Peterson sounded the keynote: "What is the Supreme Court worry about the constitutionality of this bill? It's about time we took some positive action...
...entirely different point, Texas' Senator Tom Connally was ready to oppose the nomination. Clark, he said, "showed himself unfit" for any high position by the way he directed the Rapido River battle in Italy during World War II. The 36th Division (Texas National Guard) suffered heavy losses there, and Texans can't forget...
...suspension, still has not returned to the Chicago campus. When last heard from, on September 18, he was in Warsaw and "heading east," according to a Maroon editor. Dean of Students Robert M. Strozier fired Kimmel for his participation in the Communist World Youth Rally last August, calling him "unfit . . . to edit a free and independent newspaper...