Word: brennan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Supreme Court Associate Justice William J. Brennan Jr. on September 5 called for the high court to reverse its position and declare capital punishment unconstitutional...
...Guard, the nation's Governors fret about losing control of the troops they like to think of as their own. More than half-a-dozen Governors have said they would rebuff Pentagon calls for Guardsmen to serve along the Honduran-Nicaraguan border. Some, like Maine's Joseph Brennan and Arizona's Bruce Babbitt, are reluctant to help the Reagan Administration in its support of the contras. Most of the reservations, however, arise from the Governors' determination to retain full authority to use the Guard in such politically popular activities as patrolling areas devastated by storms or restoring order in violent...
Associate Court Justices William J. Brennan and Harry A. Blackmun made this earthshattering disclosure in an unannounced question-and-answer session held yesterday at the Law School. According to these two arbiters of the law, their future boss, William H. Rehnquist, plays a mean game of trivia...
Included on the guest list were Sens. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), Supreme Court Justices Harry A. Blackmun '29 and William J. Brennan, Gov. Michael Dukakis, Saudi Arabia's top oil man, Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, and the Aga Khan '58. Members of the Corporation, the Board of Overseers, Radcliffe Trustees, several prominent faculty members, Bok's children and selected alumni were also invited...
...Brennan's successors will have a few less glamorous matters to attend to. First Jersey, which has previously been investigated by federal securities officials, is again the target of Government probes: one involving allegations of stock manipulation and another that deals with illegal campaign contributions. While admitting that the well-publicized investigations have left "battle scars," Brennan denies the charges against First Jersey and maintains that they had no bearing on his decision to resign...