Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Ernie Bevin, a Socialist for 46 years, got scolded last week for conduct unbecoming a Socialist. Britain's ailing Foreign Secretary has lately undergone two operations for hemorrhoids; each time he went to a private hospital. Under the British socialized-medicine scheme, he could have picked any Health Service hospital and had a free room, a free operation and free nursing...
...local circulated petitions on the assembly lines. At the Kaiser-Frazer plant, angry U.A.W. unionists flung one peace collector out bodily. Earnest youths turned up on campuses in New York, Chicago and Austin, Texas. In some states, impatient cops, out of sheer exasperation, arrested canvassers on charges of disorderly conduct...
Bias. In Baltimore, Judge Herbert Franklin listened to Paul Upperman's admission that he jumped into the Patapsco River from a 40-ft. bridge to win a $5 bet, dismissed the disorderly-conduct charge with the comment: "I never had the nerve to do it myself...
...secular institutions of American society draw their content of moral and spiritual nourishment from the common denominator of all religious faiths," Conant said. "It seems to me important that American public opinion lay emphasis on our ability to agree on a secular basis for moral conduct...
This time the legislators also jumped on the Item. Invoking a constitutional clause that not even the Kingfish himself had ever used, the Senate by a vote of 31 to 4 moved to cite Editor Clayton Fritchey of the Item for "disrespectful, disorderly or contemptuous" conduct toward the legislature. Maximum penalty: ten days in jail...