Word: brennans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Brennan's career at Ford Motor Co. seemed to be a classic American success story. In 31 years with the automaker, Brennan, now 56, rose from unskilled laborer through a variety of sales and administrative posts to chairman of Ford of Switzerland. His jobs involved attendance at endless rounds of lunches and social affairs, most of them bibulous. Consuming more and more liquor on the way up, Brennan became an alcoholic, subject to recurrent blackouts. Finally, five years ago, he took early retirement from Ford. Now he is suing the company for $1.3 million, contending that...
...Brennan tells it, he began drinking seriously in Washington in 1950 while representing Ford. Later, he maintained liaison for Ford at the United Nations, where he put in hours at the delegates' bar, "followed by long martini lunches." Brennan was promoted to higher posts in The Netherlands -which involved more social drinking -Austria, where he started drinking alone, and finally Switzerland. When he at last sought help, Brennan says, he was met in a Zurich hotel room by higher Ford officials who persuaded him-"over a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label"-to take early retirement...
...reliable bloc that promised to move the court away from Warren-era liberalism. But Powell has at times made the foursome a threesome; and with Blackmun more of a question mark, Burger and Rehnquist are now the most certain votes on the right. The liberals-William Douglas, William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall-remain in general agreement. And, to be sure, they are still often in the minority. The Wall Street Journal, for instance, has detected a majority trend toward favoring business, partly because of a desire to cut the glut of cases challenging all manner of commercial activity...
...coming to an end. No longer bothered by the limp that resulted from his phlebitis and surgery, the former President has been seen strolling through his Casa Pacifica grounds with old Administration standbys, including former Attorney General John Mitchell, Banker Bebe Rebozo and former Military Adviser Jack Brennan. Wife Pat, meanwhile, has been busily tending to the Nixon estate, directing the work of her gardener and occasionally doing some pruning and weeding of her own. Last week, the former First Lady left her gardening chores to attend the dedication of the new Pat Nixon School in Cerritos, Calif. "I always...
...majority that "the encouragement of private action to implement public policy has been viewed as desirable in a variety of circumstances." But, he concluded, Congress has not "extended any roving authority to the Judiciary to allow counsel fees ... whenever the courts might deem them warranted." Siding with William Brennan in disagreement, Thurgood Marshall cited a number of "judge-made exceptions" to the American rule and argued that courts therefore had adequate power to award fees when important rights were being protected. Marshall would impose restrictions on power, including a stipulation that the winners of public interest cases would...