Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bench: Good Democrat Brennan was appointed (by Republican Governor Alfred Driscoll) to New Jersey Superior Court in 1949 (appellate and trial divisions), then in 1952 to the State Supreme Court. He is a protégé of New Jersey's leonine Chief Justice Arthur Vanderbilt (TIME, Feb. 21, 1955), is hardworking, respected by lawyers, who have often found themselves discomfited because Brennan "sometimes catches you off guard." His opinions are clear, thoughtful, moderate; his mind is quick and sharp. As chairman of a New Jersey committee on calendar control and pretrial conference procedure, he helped give the state...
...nation's youngest university-the University of Dallas-opened the doors of its six brand-new air-conditioned buildings to its first class of 170 students. Originally the idea of Mother Theresa, provincial superior of the Sisters of St. Mary of Namur, the university was first planned as a small Roman Catholic college. But when Bishop Thomas Gorman began raising the necessary money, he found support enough for a more ambitious institution. Headed by Francis Brasted, 44, onetime director of the education department of the National Association of Manufacturers, the coeducational university not only provides the Dallas-Fort Worth...
President Eisenhower has shown a constructive leadership far superior to that evidenced by Adlai E. Stevenson during his governorship of Illinois, Harold E. Stassen, special assistant to the president, said last night...
...side canals branch off into the marshes, where oilmen have dredged passageways to float equipment into their fields and float oil barges back from the wells. Virtually every big company has fields, tank farms, refineries along its banks clear down to Corpus Christi-Texas Co., Standard Oil of N.J., Superior Oil, Magnolia, Kerr-McGee Pure Oil, Cities Service, Shell Oil, Gulf, Humble...
...further suspension was called for earlier this week by Thomas Dorgan, clerk of the Suffolk Superior Court and one of Striuk's principal accusers. Dorgan said in a telegram to M.I.T. President James R. Killian that he was "amazed" at the reinstatement of the calculus professor and asked that the Institute Corporation hear direct testimony from Philbrick during its Monday deliberations