Word: brennans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...Brennan's flirtation with the G.O.P. began some time ago. He represents unions, after all, whose members are solidly established in the middle class since many of them make $20,000 or more a year. Voting Republican was not all that traumatic. New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller made it easier by promoting so many construction projects round the state, Brennan has supported him in his last two bids for reelection. But taking the post under Nixon is a risk. Much as he may agree with the President on some issues, he is poles apart on others. He supports...
...reviewed each petition as it arrived. At the suggestion of Freshman Justice Lewis Powell, the petitions are now assigned to one of the law clerks, who prepares a single pool memo of one to 15 pages for separate consideration by Justices Burger, Powell, White, Blackmun and Rehnquist. Douglas, Stewart, Brennan and Marshall have refused to go along with the innovation and each reads every petition or a memo on it prepared for him by his own clerk...
Last week President Nixon's newly named Labor Secretary Peter J. Brennan, head of the New York Building and Construction Trades Council, called for dismantling wage controls. Yet Brennan has gone along with the committee in the past and as Labor Secretary-and the committee's nominal boss-he is unlikely to try to undercut Dunlop. Both men realize that whatever progress has been made in unscrambling construction's chaotic pay pacts could only have been accomplished by forceful Government intervention in the bargaining process...