Word: earls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Donovan award is given by the Veterans of the OSS, the agency's alumni association, to people who exemplify Donovan's virtues, a category broad enough to include Earl Mountbatten of Burma, the Apollo 11 astronauts and Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois. This year's winner is Jacques Chaban-Delmas, a hero of the French Resistance who is now president of the French National Assembly...
Bumper stickers demanded the impeachment of Earl Warren. Alabama Governor George Wallace called the court a ''sorry, lousy, no-account outfit...
...Earl Warren retired, and in May 1969 Nixon chose Warren Earl Burger to replace him as Chief Justice. Burger, then 61, seemed made to order for Nixon's views...
Justices sometimes have a way of surprising the Presidents who appoint them. Earl Warren did not turn out to be the man of moderate Republican views that Dwight Eisenhower expected him to be. The Nixon appointees have grown during their years on the Supreme Court; not surprisingly, they have also grown apart. Chief Justice Burger himself maintains that building an ideological bloc was not on his mind when he came to the court, whatever Nixon may have intended...
...children to school, is an example. It had "less to do with the First Amendment freedom of religion than with parental authority over children," says Yale's Robert A. Burt. "Burger makes a point of saying that these are good strict parents who do not take welfare." While Earl Warren was skeptical of traditional authority, Burger is usually respectful of it. But he can be unpredictable: he wrote the first Supreme Court opinion (Reed vs. Reed in 1971) in the line of cases giving women constitutional protection against discrimination...