Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...organization should bar no teacher from his job. Membership in leftist groups does not affect a man's competence as a teacher. In some cases even a card-carrying Communist might be perfectly competent to teach his subject, and so long as this possibility exists, general proscriptions are wrong. Professional competence and professional competence only should be the criterion for the hiring and firing of teachers...
...retirement, the President apparently could not find anyone else to take the job. "Charles Brannan," said Brannan recently with subdued sarcasm, "was just a guy keeping a chair warm ... for four or five months until a good Republican could move in." Believing, like his boss, that Gallup could be wrong, Charlie Brannan had campaigned tirelessly across the Farm Belt, helping to save his boss...
...many more farmers. A lot of the controls were designed for the farmer's own good (soil conservation, sensible crop limitations, etc.), but any independent-minded farmer would have a harder time escaping them unless he wanted to sell all his produce at low, unprotected market prices. A wrong guess on a major crop could cost the Treasury millions more in subsidy checks; in this hazardous field, the Department of Agriculture's forecasting system had not distinguished itself in predicting the 1950 winter-wheat crop...
...just how dangerous, they do not yet quite agree. Some, like Yale's retiring Charles Seymour, see nothing wrong in the Government's subsidizing medical schools ("But I draw the line there"). Others, like Kenyon's President Gordon Chalmers, see little danger in direct scholarship aid to students. Still others, like President Charles F. Phillips of Bates College, see the "lure of federal aid" to private colleges in any form as "an enemy that looks like a friend...
...Capture (RKO Radio) is a western with psychiatric overtones, a bright enough idea that didn't quite work out. Lew Ayres, an American oilman in Mexico, goes out after a payroll bandit and shoots the wrong man. Remorse, complicated by some amazing coincidences, leads him to break his engagement, quit his job, marry the murdered man's widow (Teresa Wright) and set out to clear the dead man's name. He is soon involved in a second murder, causes a suicide, and gets mixed up in a somewhat pointless chase sequence, in which he finally manages...