Word: fortases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Automatic Honor. The Administration also may not quickly recover from the matter of Judge Clement Haynsworth's financial affairs. With Eisenhower's old dictum about being "clean as a hound's tooth" as a possible rationalization, the Administration helped nudge Abe Fortas off the Supreme Court. Now...
> A letter to the editor from a man who was withdrawing his earlier self-nomination for Man of the Year: "It is with deepest regret that I must ask you to disregard my letter of some months ago. A. Fortas, Washington, D.C."
Double Bugaboo. Thus in one day the ideological furniture on the minority side was considerably rearranged. Both Scott and Griffin represent industrial states with large labor, urban, black and ethnic constituencies. Neither, of course, is anything like a social radical, and both have voted often enough for conservative causes. Scott...
For reasons that seem to be rooted in the public mood, muckraking is a cyclic form of journalism. If a society is troubled, it suspects that something is wrong with its system or its leaders; a free press responds by finding out what that something is. Hence the recent exposes...
Newspapers and magazines don't often like to talk about their own problems. Life magazine, for example, gleefully served up the bad news about Abe Fortas, but it has been noticeably less eager to tell about its own financial crisis. And the New York Times, which runs deadpan stories on...