Word: unpopular
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WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR, by Walker Lewis. A beguiling, if somewhat biased biography of U.S. Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, an uncompromising old constitutionalist, whose decision in the Dred Scott case and steadfast opposition to wartime measures of the Lincoln Administration made him one of the most unpopular men of his time...
...charge in this country, the Reserve Board or the President of the United States." Louisiana's Russell Long, who will succeed Harry Byrd as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee when Congress reconvenes next month, showed his innocence of economics by protesting: "Nothing could be more unpopular than a major increase in interest rates on the eve of Christmas, when the average man will be borrowing money to provide gifts of joy to his wife and children. Mr. Martin's Christmas gift to the money lenders is an example of Dickens' Christmas Carol told in reverse...
...Track Approach. However unpopular its measures may be, the Treasury has certainly missed few opportunities to keep U.S. dollars at home. When French Banker Baron Guy de Rothschild's three-year-old colt, Diatome, won last month's Washington, D.C. International, Treasury's Fowler was right there to present the $90,000 prize money. Fowler lost no time in expressing his hope that the baron would leave his winnings in the U.S., where they would not contribute to the payments deficit. Rothschild agreed to do just that...
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...