Word: burger
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Freund, who served as a clerk to Justice Louis Brandeis, said that the Court of the 1930s struck down innovative statutes passed during the Roosevelt administration. The Warren and Burger courts, in contrast, reviewed "legislation of an older vintage...
...ways of coping are as varied as the crisis. With so many cars marooned in the snow, like beasts stricken in their tracks, people ply the icy city streets in snowmobiles. Railroad engineers thaw out frozen whistles with flares and blowtorches. A Burger King in Camden County, N.J., is the envy of the competition. It serves customers twelve hours every day at 70° because it is heated by solar power. In Pittsburgh, a discotheque called Reflections has a sign on the door: THIS ESTABLISHMENT is WARMED BY BODY HEAT...
...Marine Band played the Navy Hymn in Carter's honor, and Walter Mondale was sworn in as Vice President by-at his own request -House Speaker Tip O'Neill. Then came Carter's turn. "Are you ready to take the oath of office?" Chief Justice Warren Burger asked him at precisely 12:03 p.m. No man had ever been readier. While Rosalynn held the family Bible, Carter placed his hand on it; in front of him was the Bible used for George Washington's swearing-in, open to the verse from the prophet Micah that Carter...
Warren Earl Burger was understandably miffed when the mail brought his invitation to Jimmy Carter's Inauguration this week as the 39th President of the U.S. It asked a fee of $25 for a hard, wooden bleacher seat to watch the 2-hr. Inaugural parade. "If I have to pay $25," joked the Chief Justice of the U.S., "I'll charge Carter $50 to swear...
...billing of Burger the epitome of egalitarianism, a felonious breach of etiquette or a simple gaffe? Most probably a gaffe, and as such it typified the confusion of what may turn out to be the most chaotic Inaugural since Andy Jackson's admirers tracked mud all over the White House in a frenzy to shake his hand...