Word: misconducting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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There is general dissatisfaction with the situation at both Columbia and Brown, Brown's dormitories even lost their lounges two years ago because of breakage of furniture and alleged "sexual misconduct." Columbia's lounges are unpopular; though they are open mill 12, they are devoid of all amenities, and from 10:30 on there is a guard who makes periodic close inspections. Cornell seems to be happy with Williard Straight Hall lounges and its fraternities; there has been no agitation for any kind of room permission...
Miriam Van Waters, superintendent of the Framingham Reformatory for Women, said yesterday that juvenile delinquents must be treated with understanding, not punished for their misconduct...
...unpopular bill when moviemen promised stricter regulations. Last week, at a meeting in Manhattan, a chastened Motion Picture Association of America announced that it had added a new section to its advertising code of ethics: "No text or illustration shall be used which capitalizes, directly or by implication, upon misconduct of a person connected with a motion picture thus advertised...
Manufacturers who installed pension plans at the time did so on a highly informal, unilateral basis. "The company," one of the early plans stipulated, "may cancel any pension whenever . . . the pensioner displays a decided lack of appreciation . . . or is guilty of other serious misconduct . . ." By 1929 industrial pension plans covered 1,451,485 workers. Most of the benefits were paid entirely by the employer, and employees contributed nothing; most of the plans were on a pay-as-you-go basis, i.e., the benefits were paid out of current earnings...
...symposium, edited by Sorokin, will contain a study of an experiment at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital in which two treatments were tried on the mentally ill. Some patients were handled with kindness, while others were punished for misconduct...