Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Firm Hand. The Dred Scott decision alone made Taney extremely unpopular in the North, but public ire reached a crescendo after Fort Sumter, when he steadfastly opposed the war-harassed Lincoln Administration as it tried to circumvent constitutional safeguards for the sake of wartime efficiency...
Civil War or not, Taney held that it was the duty of the court to maintain "with an even and firm hand the rights and powers of the Federal Government, and of the States, and of the citizens, as they are written in the Constitution ..." In a series of unpopular decisions, he held that the President alone did not have the power to order the seizure of ships trading with Confederate ports; he ordered the federal provost marshal to pay damages and costs for merchandise which had been confiscated because it was bound for Virginia. He outraged the Administration...
...beginning to learn how to play upon the battles between the generations that are behind the other threats to the way of life of middle-class Californians. Reagan has said that he will have something to say about Berkeley in his campaign next year, but the slick political management firm he hired has probably not quite decided what it is yet. All anyone can be sure of is that in a conflict between threatened, defensive parents and their rebellious offspring, the parents can outvote the offspring any time...
...accept that curiously inverted, if unintentional racism which insists that a free society is appropriate for Caucasians but that communism is good enough for Asians," Handlin said. He added that only firm resistance will counter Chinese expansion...
Cambridge Seven is a virtual manpower center for the School of Design. Five of its members have Harvard appointments and teach there or at the Carpenter Center. The firm has renovated the basement of the Brattle Theatre...