Word: standpat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Supreme Court argue that he is perhaps being opposed for the wrong reasons. Despite the Senate flap over his financial dealings, some of Haynsworth's detractors are more upset about his judicial decisions than his judicial ethics. They charge that he has too often been a standpat, antiliberal jurist during his twelve years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. While his record in criminal cases has gone virtually unchallenged, on two other fronts -civil rights and labor cases-critics are concerned about a number of Haynsworth opinions. A chronological look at some that they find...
Along with its legislative record, each Congress writes its own short hand label: innovative or standpat, Micawberish or Scroogian, spineless or rebellious. The 90th's first session fell somewhere in between on each count. It reflected rather too faithfully the national condition of confusion and contention over Viet Nam and the urban crisis. Unable to change the course of either, its mood was often one of angry frustration. The fight over the proposed tax increase and efforts to curb federal spending flavored the entire session, giving it a bitter taste-but no tax bill and only marginal savings...
...Reuther's C.I.O. back in 1955, the event was hailed as a happy-ever-after alliance. From the A.F.L.-C.l.O.'s earliest days, the partners proved less than compatible. President Meany, now 72, a crusty, authoritarian craft unionist, was dogmatically anti-Communist in foreign affairs and staunchly standpat about civil rights at home. As top vice president, the idealistic, garrulous Reuther, 59, onetime boy wonder of the industrial unionists, tried to nudge the labor movement into the vanguard of social reform and international bridge building. Not only has Reuther failed to get his way, it is now also...
...Society, such as whether or not to tamper with the fourth vow, to committee for further study. As for the daily hour of prayer, the delegates' report emphasized its importance in Jesuit tradition, but gave local provincials some leeway for making exceptions. Taken together with his recent standpat position on birth control, the Pope's rebuke showed that he intended to be cautious in carrying out the renewal promised by the Vatican Council. The day he spoke to the Jesuits, Paul told a general audience at St. Peter's: "You cannot demolish the church of yesterday...
...railroads, New York Central President Alfred Perlman once explained that for years they had endured the lash of critics who "thought the industry was like the dodo bird-with its head where its tail feathers ought to be." Until recently, the critics seemed to be right. Standpat thinking smothered rail progress for most of the first four decades of the century, while autos, trucks and air travel nibbled away at the railroads' markets. Belatedly realizing that one track that led to greater efficiency was merger, the railroads since 1956 have persuaded the Interstate Commerce Commission to approve 26 mergers...