Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With its immense power, he says, the U.S. is repeatedly faced with the crucial choice of when to use it and when to withhold it, when to act and when not to act. Yet there are all too many men, he believes, who are reluctant "to give full weight to the role of power and its necessity in the world's affairs...
...matter how legitimate their aims, the splinter groups can only add up to a headache for those trying to reunify the Republican Party. National Chairman Ray Bliss recently ordered his finance committee to withhold its contributor lists from splinter organizations. Then, after the Goldwater announcement, Bliss angrily spoke out on the touchy subject. "When you have side movements," he said, "they certainly aren't helpful. I believe we should be presenting a united front...
...more practical preventive against such abuse may lie in testing whether U.S. Education Commissioner Francis Keppel has the power under the 1964 Civil Rights Act to withhold federal funds from school districts that discriminate against Negro teachers. One section of the act's Title VI specifically prevents him from trying to stop discriminatory employment practices, but Keppel nonetheless believes that discrimination against Negro teachers has a discriminatory effect on schoolchildren, and thus his office can require faculty as well as student integration as a qualification for federal...
...month before Furry's appearance before the HUAC, Arthur Sutherland, professor of Law, and Zechariah Chafee, Jr., University Professor and a respected civil libertarian, issued a statement intended to clear up ambivalent aspects of the fifth amendment. In sum, they argued that it was "ill-advised" for witnesses to withhold testimony on grounds of self-incrimination in court or before legislative investigation committees. The professors felt the citizen "is neither morally nor legally justified in attempting political protest by standing silent when obligated to speak." Also ruled out as a motive for silence was a "sense of sportsmanship toward suspected...
Composers in the Music Department yesterday termed "unfortunate" the Pulitzer Prize jury's decision to withhold the prize in music for the second consecutive year...