Word: ackermans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Presidents have ended treaties without asking for the Senate's support; one of the last times was in 1939, when Franklin Roosevelt canceled a commercial agreement with Japan. Several constitutional experts sided with the Administration. "The search for precedents is not critical," said Yale Law School Professor Bruce Ackerman. "What we have is a gradual evolution of presidential-congressional interaction on the conduct of foreign affairs. It seems obvious to me that once the President has acted unilaterally, there is little Congress...
Kaiser and the Steelworkers agreed to their affirmative-action program voluntarily, notes Yale Law School Professor Bruce Ackerman, but "with the Government looking over their shoulders." Fewer than 2% of the 273 skilled craft workers at the Kaiser plant where Weber works were black, while the surrounding area's work force was 39% black. Discrimination had been shown at two other Kaiser plants in Louisiana, and the company risked losing federal contracts. But Kaiser still insisted in the lower courts that there had been no past discrimination. Why? Because the company did not want to lay itself open to suits...
...next day, at Howe's direction, two city inspectors showed up at the Ackerman house. Two days later, Ackerman received a letter from the Board of Health at Howe's debut citing him for a rarely-enforced city ordinance against five or more unrelated adults living together without a "boarding house" license. Only when Ackerman hired a lawyer to challenge Howe's actions did the city rule in his favor...
Howe still maintains that Ackerman was operating a boarding house, despite a ruling to the contrary by the city solicitor's office...
Marie Howe denies playing any role in the Ackerman incident, but told The Crimson that "Mr. Ackerman's house was loaded with German swastikas.... They were in adoration of Adolf Hitler," Ackerman's wife, Kathy Moore says that there are no swastikas in her house and never have been: "That's just the craziest thing I ever heard. ... The poor woman apparently doesn't know the difference between the (political) right and the left." Indeed, most of the members of their household are Jewish. (Marie Howe adds that even if the Ackermans are Nazis, "that...