Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dubinsky, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and a member of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. ethical-practices committee. Said Dubinsky at the opening session of the I.L.G.W.U.'s 29th triennial convention in Atlantic City: labor leaders who double as businessmen in the same fields are "immoral, unethical, unfit to serve the labor movement." Though he named no names, none in the hall doubted that the charge was aimed especially at the Teamsters. They were sure when Dubinsky suggested that unions should expel such leaders without waiting for the law to do the job for them...
...Only If Unfit. For months before the meeting, a special eight-man committee had been examining the records of various campuses and had finally drawn up a statement reaffirming the A.A.U.P.'s stand on the question: Should a teacher be fired if he has pleaded the Fifth Amendment or remained silent while under investigation for Communist ties or sympathies? Its main conclusion: the only way a school can justly fire a teacher is to prove that he is unfit to teach because of "incompetence, lack of scholarly objectivity or integrity, serious misuse of the classroom or of academic prestige...
Under this rule, said the committee, a school would not even have the right to fire a Communist Party member, unless the teacher is proved unfit as a teacher. Nor should it have the right to dismiss a man solely because he pleads the Fifth Amendment. In such cases the school may have the duty to investigate further. But the burden of proof should lie with the institution, and no final decision should be made until the accused professor has been judged by his academic peers. Though it may be legally indefensible, added the committee, a refusal to answer questions...
...Ladd case, the exception to tradition resulted from an inner-party feud. In the Sumner and Cummins instances, however, the precedent was circumvented because the Senate considered the proposed senator unfit for the position he was to occupy...
...were raised, mostly by their mother; the father ran out on the family when Audie was twelve. The boy quit school and went to work on a farm, and at 17 he enlisted in the Army. The Marines and the Navy had turned down the skinny little geezer as unfit for combat, and when he got to North Africa the boys in his platoon shook their heads. "That's real fresh meat, huh? . . . It's going to take two strong men to take care of him in action...