Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Treasurer Kennedy exploded; his brother could whip the whole council at an intelligence test. Said John F. (for Francis) Kennedy: "James is more intelligent than any member of the council. If he doesn't get a higher mark than any of them I will withdraw his name...
Duty & Faith. Nowhere in the article does Teller withdraw or modify his testimony about Oppenheimer before the AEC's security board when he said: "I would feel personally more secure if public matters would rest in other hands" (than Oppenheimer...
...Republican membership of the House was in a fury by the time the bill reached the floor. Indiana's Republican Representative Charles Halleck, his face flushed, his voice pitched high, said: "I suppose blackjacking is a strong word, and if it is unparliamentary, I will withdraw it. But coming from Indiana, it well looks to me like this is a sort of blackjacking operation to put the President and a lot of us over the barrel by saying, 'Well, if you do not take this $20, you are jeopardizing the excise extension and the 52% corporation...
...scientists have assumed a more and more important and authoritative role in national defense, many self-styled experts on democracy have feared that their political influence might increase accordingly. Some have attempted to force respected specialists to withdraw their weight from the political balances altogether, allowing other to determine social values. The consensus seems to be that if scientists would return to their laboratories and judges retire to their benches, democracy could work more smoothly for the betterment of all. A critic of the University of Chicago's nuclear physicist Harold C. Urey, who recently questioned the fairness...
Whatever the consequence of demands that specialists withdraw from the political scene, the logic of the assaults demands attention. If the political convictions of Professor Urey are respected as scientific verity, democracy will suffer. "It is time that people realize I am but an amateur on these matters of law," Professor Urey states. "In science 'authority' is of no importance, Scientists accept the arguments of the famous and of the most unknown on their merits. We only ask the same treatment in other matters." Only if the moral opinions of specialists are intellectuals assume a rational role in politics...