Word: question
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...court's latest decision also brought into sharp question the constitutionality of the McCarran anti-subversive act, which Communists are currently defying. Forcing a person to register as a Communist might also conceivably be held as an infringement of his rights under the Fifth Amendment...
Nearly a year ago, New York City's Superintendent of Schools William Jansen summoned a teacher into his office and asked him this question: "Are you now, or were you ever, a member of the Communist Party?" The teacher refused to answer, and in time, seven others did the same. Last May, Superintendent Jansen suspended all eight for "insubordination and conduct unbecoming a teacher." Since then, New York City has been trying to decide whether Dr. Jansen had the legal right to do what...
...since the Communist Party has "at all pertinent times [been] dedicated to the advocacy of the violent overthrow of the Government of the United States . . . membership in the party constitutes cause for dismissal of a teacher . . ." Therefore, said Kiendl, it was "perfectly proper" for the superintendent to ask the question he did, and it was the duty of each teacher to answer...
...Chicago Tribune, which has been campaigning against grafting policemen, also runs Comic-Strip Detective Dick Tracy. Therefore, when Tracy moved into a palatial home, Trib Reader William J. O'Neil asked an obvious question: How could Tracy afford such a fine house on a detective's pay? Wrote Reader O'Neil: "The Tribune having been a stalwart defender of 'clean government' ... we feel sure that you will launch an immediate investigation of this matter." The Tribune's only comment was an enigmatic headline over the letter: HE BUILT IT OUT OF HIS REWARDS...
Most modern nurses start training for their careers at 18, but it was not always so: the mother of the nursing sisterhood thought 18 much too young. In a letter published for the first time in the current British Medical Journal, Florence Nightingale gave some advice on the question...