Word: favored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, Professor of Law, and several other members of the law faculty, have indicated that they would favor the appointment of Potter Stewart, Ohio, Justice of the Federal Court of Appeals, to succeed retiring Justice Reed to the Supreme Court. Justice Stewart is the brother of Zeph Stewart, associate professor of Greek and Latin, and Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Adams House...
Howe described Judge Stewart as a "very able young man, with geographical factors and party affiliations in his favor." It is generally expected that the Eisenhower appointee will be a mid-westerner with Republican views...
...demands in 1952, when their long-term contract could be opened for modification. Though the union gave the required 60 days' notice, the company held that it violated the Taft-Hartley Act because the contract had merely been reopened, not terminated. The National Labor Relations Board ruled in favor of the union, but a circuit court overruled NLRB. By ruling that the term "expiration date" can refer to the time when a contract reopens as well as to when it terminates, the Supreme Court cleared away the legal underbrush hampering the spread of long-term contracts with reopener clauses...
Gulf's decision followed passage of a new oil law by the Chamber and Senate after long debate. The law sets up a sliding royalty scale splitting the profits 60-40 in favor of the government, instead of the usual 50-50 split. It also contains a set of clauses designed to favor E.N.I. Example: when a private company brings in a new field, its concession is automatically restricted to 7,413 acres around each well, thus allowing E.N.I, to move in and buy up the land all around the proven field...
...discussing the Senate it is pointless to argue action on the basis of an electoral mandate last November. The Senate is anything but a popular or representative assembly, and the only significant bearing that the election will have on this issue is the supplying of several new Senators who favor such action...