Word: mccarthyism
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...loss or gain. So, mink coats, a legitimate political issue, is raised as a moral issue, an oblique one when compared to a basic moral issue such as the violation of a Truman order protecting FBI loyalty files from unauthorized persons as McCarthy. When a fundamental moral issue as McCarthyism arises, it is ignored. No one, as yet, has measured the loss of reputations in dollars and cents. So, McCarthy's attacks were estimated in terms of efficiency. His action was balm to inertia-minded conservatives who like nothing better than a little motion, concentric as it may be, just...
...purpose of the letter is to protest the existence of a street called McCarthy Road, which grazes the University just east of Fair Dunster House. For the most part, Harvard has been able to escape the influence of McCarthyism. But to keep this street so named is to irritate a running sore on the elbow of the University. I think the governors of the University, who pay so much in taxes to the City of Cambridge, should prevail upon the Cambridge fathers to change the name of McCarthy Road to Welch Boulevard. Thus would an evil influence be eliminated...
...Church and Nation Committee of the Church of Scotland prepared for this week's General Assembly a report warning that "Another threat to Christian values comes today from . . . those that exploit the fear of Communism for sinister political ends . . . The emergence of McCarthyism can no longer be regarded as a merely temporary phenomenon . . . The Christian heritage of truth and freedom is endangered by a movement that is having evil repercussions throughout the world . . ." ¶After eight days of balloting on a country estate near London, the High Council of the Salvation Army elected a new general to succeed retiring...
Lippmann argued that it was the function of the Executive branch to enforce the law and ferret out crime. He concluded: "McCarthyism is fundamentally unconstitutional in spirit and in practice...
...Green Feather Group of "Merry Men" will be organized here in the next few weeks in order to fight McCarthyism. The Student Council last night decided to distribute national information on this group to local political clubs...