Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...definite rules which were set up by the Council. These rules were published in the Union, and made clear to all candidates. If such disregard of rules is to be allowed, it will not only affect the present election but also set a precedent for future ones and thereby weaken the authority and prestige of the Council...
...Edgar Hoover says: "The American Communist Party is just as vicious as it ever was." The party will probably not revive as an organization unless and until some major national setback or division causes another great wave of doubt to weaken America's faith in itself and in its way of living. But the party still can, through its fronts and dupes, sow doubt, in smaller but dangerous doses, about U.S. policies and principles. The question today is no longer whether to fight Communism-Americans have made up their minds about that-but how to fight it. The best...
...great number of grants" to persons disloyal to the U.S. One of the witnesses, Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, former chancellor of the University of Chicago and now a Ford Foundation associate director, replied: "I am perfectly certain that no major foundation has ever consciously gone into anything that would weaken the American system." He then gave the committee a little lecture on the nature of academic freedom: "Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view . . . You cannot assume that you are going to have everybody thinking...
Inflation. Against the present Administration's policy of using the Federal Reserve System to weaken the dollar...
Eisenhower, however, said he "favors federal contractual arrangements with schools and colleges for scientific research in the public interest. Federal support of this sort, and even certain types of fellowships and scholarships, do not, in my judgment, weaken local government or sap community enterprise...