Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...could look ahead. The U.S. people, New York's Irving Ives was convinced, were fed up with Acheson. "It all stems from the tragic mistakes made in Asia. Acheson is not entirely responsible for what happened. But he has acquired a symbolic role. It's probably unfair to him in some ways...
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Thomas MacNamara announced that he could not vote for the order because "to imply that people are Communists without evidence would be extremely unfair." MacNamara suggested a "personal investigation by Lynch to determine if there is any basis for the order...
When the Army's Judicial Council in Washington upheld the conviction, Lieut. Gilbert planned an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. His trial had not been unfair, just incomplete. Important defense witnesses had not been permitted to leave their foxholes to testify. His eight judges, all white, had disregarded the report from three Army doctors, one a psychiatrist, who found him suffering from acute battle fatigue and "unable to adhere to the right" (Gilbert had collapsed in Italy as a combat officer during World War II, had been reassigned to rear-area duty). Most important, Gilbert felt that...
Perhaps, however, such conclusions would be unfair and unrepresentative. Just as much so as the statement, "Yale, according to its students of more than average insight, is a trade school for success." The Yale students concerned may have had insight a-plenty, but that quality is not to be discerned in their interviewers. Garrison McC. Ellis Chairman, Yale Dally News...