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During his first four months in office, Labor Secretary Peter J. Brennan managed to remain all but invisible: he held no formal press conferences, granted precious few interviews and avoided appearing before Congress. Last week the former hardhat from Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen finally surfaced to detail for a House subcommittee the Nixon Administration's minimum-wage bil−and with that single appearance, Brennan provoked a maxi-split with his old colleagues in the union movement. Said AFL-CIO President George Meany: "We are aghast that Brennan has so completely abandoned the trade-union principles...
...sense of loyalty, both to me and to Nixon." Gray and Finch helped Nixon narrowly carry California, but when the national election was lost, Gray moved to New London, Conn., where he had been stationed at the submarine base. He joined the law firm of Sui-man, Shapiro, Wool & Brennan. Gray specialized in trusts, estates and taxes; he also spent many hours without charge to close the estates of sailors who went down with the submarine Thresher in 1963. Although New London is not big league in legal circles, it took Gray six years to become a partner...
Nixon's appearance at the AFL-CIO meeting and the new flexibility in wages were only the two freshest roses tossed by the White House lately in labor's path. Meany was respectfully consulted on both Dunlop's appointment and that of Peter Brennan, a New York City hardhat leader who became the first union man to head the Labor Department in almost 20 years. The President also took the extraordinary step of inviting Meany to submit his personal nominees for several top-ranking jobs in the Housing and Urban Development, Commerce and Defense departments. Finally, Nixon...
...limited styles, then perhaps they could bring it off from beginning to end. The old woman has fine gestures but a redundant voice, while the man has the voice but not the gestures. His idea of old age is to teeter and lurch stiffly, like a poorly-rendered Walter Brennan--stilted and mechanical. The woman acquires a more natural and varied style of movement and sticks to it: it works better. But her grandmotherly, shivering voice begins to drone after a while. Her husband's voice on the other hand, takes on a detached, radio-announcer tone that parodies itself...
...hospitals and health facilities under Catholic auspices will not find this compatible with their faith and moral convictions. We urge our doctors, nurses and healthcare personnel to stand fast in refusing to provide abortion on request." A Virginia group of Catholic laymen urged a "symbolic gesture": excommunication of William Brennan, the court's only Catholic and part of the majority. Naturally, the decision brought cheers from pro-abortionists-and equally prompt action. One shut-down abortion clinic in Detroit had equipment flown in right after the court acted and performed 20 abortions by the next evening. By week...