Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Some Concern. If all else fails, Johnson could keep the Senate in special session until his nominations are approved. Obtaining their seats only through cloture or a special session would, however, be something of a humiliation for Fortas and Thornberry. The President and his nominees thus have some cause for concern. There is at least a possibility, says Mansfield, that Earl Warren might have to delay his retirement...
Reading It All. Apart from his reputation as a liberal?a useful but sometimes misleading label when applied to judicial decisions?Fortas has a personal concern for social justice. At his urging, Arnold, Fortas, and Porter, his law firm in Washington for nearly two decades, took on something like 100 free cases?far more than normal legal ethics would dictate. "He had a strong feeling that a law firm should not be operated completely for profit," says Thurman Arnold, a New Deal trustbuster and former federal appeals judge...
...foresaw new challenges, new problems for the court-the Fortas court. "It was one thing to have enunciated great principles," Fortas says of the Warren era, which he admires greatly. "But it is another thing to make them come alive." There would be new concerns as the Justices explored the terms and conditions of welfare programs, which are based on confusing and sometimes ambiguous laws, and there would probably be a re-examination of the relationship between the courts and the federal regulatory agencies. The operation of the federal courts themselves is a matter for concern...
...country dominated by intellectual tradition, they were deeply dismayed by the content and direction of their stud ies. And by extension of that worry, they are now preoccupied with the place they will take in the world and what shape that world will have. The similarity between their concern and that which has grown up in the U.S. and the rest of Europe reflects a world community of youth that seems certain to play a major part in rebuilding society...
...overriding concern of the delegates was the strong trend toward change in the Roman Catholic Church. Some participants warned that "liber alism" prepares the way for Communist infiltration of the U.S. and the Church. On hand were representatives of militantly anti-Communist groups ranging from the Young Americans for Freedom to the Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation. Lola Belle Holmes, a Negro who identified herself as a former undercover agent for the FBI within the Communist Party, declared that it is out "to capture the Catholic Church." The nation's only hope for leadership, she added, is George Wallace...