Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Author Huie is entirely right about his book; TIME was dead wrong. 2) In a letter to the Reader's Digest, Admiral Denfeld's office took exception to 26 points (some of them labeled "major misstatements") in Huie's first Digest article. 3) Collier's found "no basis" for six statements in Huie's football article. It printed an apology: "A serious injustice [to] the University of Alabama ... we sincerely regret its publication." 4) Both the FBI and Senator Brien McMahon, chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, said they were satisfied with...
Gordon Clapp, quiet, competent 43-year-old boss of the Government's $800 million public-power empire had something to say, all right. He had never been asked to serve in an Army job, did not even know he had been considered for one, and would not be interested if he were; TVA duties take up all of his time. Next day, the Army, realizing it had been guilty of irresponsible character assassination, beat a hasty retreat. "The Army," said its new Secretary, Gordon Gray, "has never investigated Mr. Gordon R. Clapp and has absolutely no derogatory information about...
...right of a congressional committee to demand that witnesses say whether they are Communists was upheld this week by the U.S. Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia. The decision approved the contempt convictions of Screen Writers John Howard Lawson and Dalton Trumbo, who had been sentenced to a year in jail and fined $1,000 for refusing to answer the question solely on the ground that the committee had no right...
...plane had barely cleared San Juan Bay when the right engine, pounding for altitude, sputtered and conked out. There was no chance to get back to the field; Pilot Cockrill made the best of his only choice. He set the plane down on its belly into the mottled, moonlit sea, a mile from shore, 400 yards from a small island. The lights went out. In the black horror of the cabin many of the Puerto Ricans, chained to their seats by terror, just prayed and waited...
...clash between American Democracy and Catholic Power arises, as Blanshard shows, because this control which the Church seeks to exert is necessarily illiberal, since it denies the right of "error" (in other words, any view which disagrees with the Church's official position) to be heard. Blanshard's book is a carefully documented study of how the Church is now trying to exert this control in the United States. What makes "American Democracy and Catholic Power" worthy of wide circulation is that most Americans are unaware of the extent of the Church's success in this effort at control...