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...Although I have great respect for the high level of scholarship at the University of Washington, I personally would not return there for a visiting engagement before there are more concrete steps to show that the university will uphold academic freedom more consistently than it has in the past," Weisskopf continued...
...Deal came to the rescue with the WPA. The wages WPA offered to the unemployed were less than the prevailing union scales for building-trades members. Said Meany: "We are not attempting to dictate how the Federal Government shall handle relief. We are merely endeavoring to uphold the prevailing wage law for which we had to fight for 50 years." Four weeks later the first building trades strikes against the WPA began. In Washington Harry Hopkins, with White House approval, issued what George Meany called a "work or starve" ukase...
...have ignored this goal, plunging into polities with unmatched fervor. as a result of the controversies in which the agency has been engaged, Commissioners have become known by the polities they keep. Businessmen or scientists on the commission are popularly regarded as high-level lobbyists, and expected to uphold predetermined viewpoints on almost every issue...
...been traditionally outspoken, and its pronouncements have often been designed to uphold the standards of American medicine. Emphasizing the need to set rigid standards for physician's training, the AMA has also established codes of ethics and high requirements throughout medical practice, using its power to expel and discredit members who violate the rules of their state medical associations. In maintaining medical facilities at the highest levels, the AMA has done valuable work--which could have been done only by learned men, experienced in their profession...
...plant and to protect its other employees . . . against the same danger and the possibility of 'sabotage, force, violence' . . . The courts of this country, by making such an order [to reinstate Mrs. Walker], would be but aiding toward destruction of the Government they are sworn to uphold...