Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...credited with using his considerable persuasive talents to work out majorities for the liberal views. With the appointment of New Jersey Democrat William Brennan, there was formed a B.B.D. & W. dominant liberal bloc-Black, Brennan, Douglas and Warren. While no court bloc is ever hard and fast, this group-over a wide range of cases-frequently managed to make itself into a majority with support from Justices Harlan and Frankfurter...
...word, "sulphurous" attack on Wall Street. Although he had never been a judge, Roosevelt appointed him to the court on the retirement of Louis Brandeis. On the bench, pencil behind ear, hair awry, Presbyterian Douglas became a dauntless proponent of labor, civil rights, wrote armloads of decisions. Holding fast to his basic position on the left, he became, with Black, the court's leading dissenter...
...with amendments (TIME, June 24), finally last week passed it by a vote of 286 to 126. By the usual procedure, under Senate Rule 25, the House's bill seemed headed for the Eastland committee. But California's Minority Leader William F. Knowland was ready with a fast parliamentary ploy: he invoked 80-year-old Rule 14, under which a member can request that a House-passed measure "be placed on the calendar," thereby keeping it out of committee...
...Office of Defense Mobilization decision to grant Idaho Power a multimillion-dollar fast write-off tax break on the Snake River project (TIME, May 13) started the issue sizzling again. Encouraged, Northern Democrats in the Senate revived their Hells Canyon bill, although the federal dam it called for would flood Idaho Power's three dam sites...
...story of the greatest political betrayal of recent times promised to become an international bestseller last week (in all but Communist countries, where it was barely mentioned, and then only in a denunciatory way). A prepublication print order of 50,000 copies at $2 was already selling fast...